Mexico wanted to sue for $10 billion in damages, but the justices said it is not plausible that gun manufacturers aided and abetted gun traffickers, and therefore, they are not liable.

Opinion: The Mexican-based drug trade propped up by American guns causes health, legal and economic strains on U.S.

"Those guns may be 'coveted by the cartels,' as Mexico alleges; but they also may appeal, as the manufacturers rejoin, to 'millions of law-abiding Hispanic Americans,'" Kagan wrote.

Firearms makers, led by Smith & Wesson Brands, said the chain of events between the manufacture of a gun and the harm it causes after being sold, transported, and used to commit crime in ...

The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Mexico’s challenge to U.S. gun manufacturers, holding that they cannot be blamed for crime and cartel violence south of the border.

Mexico never alleged that the gun manufacturers directly sold guns to Mexican cartels, actively conspired with gun traffickers, or even intended for Mexican cartels to use their products.

The Supreme Court was asked to determine the future of Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. firearm manufacturers, in which the country’s government asked the companies to pay $10 billion in damages ...

In 2021, Mexico sued several gun manufacturers and one gun distributor under a variety of tort claims, trying to hold them liable for the gun-violence epidemic harming the country.

Mexico sued seven gun manufacturers in 2021, seeking to pull the linchpin from the crime gun pipeline. U.S. gunmakers are an essential component of cartel violence, Mexico argued, because it maintains ...

“The predicate exception allows for accomplice liability only when a plaintiff makes a plausible allegation that a gun manufacturer ‘participate [d] in’ a firearms violation ‘as in something that [it] ...

Thousands of firearms found in Mexico have been linked to U.S. manufacturers and dealers in the past, with the weapons fueling violence, which has then led to mass migration into the United States.