GOP AGs ask SCOTUS to hear Mexico's lawsuit blaming US gun manufacturers for cartel violence

A cohort of 27 top Republican prosecutors have filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court, asking it to take up a case brought by the Mexican government that seeks to hold American gun manufacturers responsible for gun violence at the hands of the cartels. On Tuesday, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, along with GOP colleagues, asked the court to hear the case to stop 'a foreign sovereign’s use of American courts to effectively limit the rights of American citizens.

Knudsen, in his petition to the high court, says 'anti-gun activists' are behind the lawsuit. 'Congress has long taken a measured and carefully calibrated approach to firearms regulation. It sought to balance the public’s Second Amendment rights with the need to keep guns away from criminals. Anti-gun activists wanted more,' the petition explains. 'So they turned to the judiciary.

Mexico’s proximate causation theory contains a glaring defect. Mexico is a sovereign nation. It controls its own borders. Mexico could simply close – indeed, militarize – its border with the United States if it chose to do so. Doubtless the closure would be painful, and Mexico has chosen to do otherwise. Indeed, Mexico has flung its border open and sought to extort billions of dollars from the United States to even attempt to manage the resulting chaos,' the AGs wrote.

The states of Montana, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming and Arizona submitted this amicus brief. If the Supreme Court decides to hear the case, oral arguments could be scheduled this fall. Reuters contributed to this report.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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