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

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.

"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.

That includes doing business with dealers who repeatedly sell large quantities of guns to cartel traffickers, Mexico's counsel alleged. Firearms makers, led by Smith & Wesson Brands, said the ...

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 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.

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] ...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of seven American gun manufacturers that Mexico had charged with aiding illegal gun sales to drug cartels. In the aftermath, it has somehow escaped ...

"Mexico's complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers' unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers," Kagan wrote for the court.

Mexico sued Smith & Wesson and six other US gunmakers for $10 billion in damages, alleging that the companies design and market their guns specifically to drug cartels that then use them in the ...