A federal judge in Boston has thrown out much of the $10-billion lawsuit filed by the Mexican government against eight gunmakers for what the government called “mass carnage” south of the border.
On Wednesday, a federal District Court judge in Boston dismissed six of the eight respondents from the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds. Companies dismissed from the lawsuit by U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor included Sturm, Ruger and Company, Glock, Barrett Firearms, Colt’s Manufacturing, Century International Arms and Beretta. Companies still involved in the lawsuit include gunmaker Smith & Wesson and wholesaler Whitmer Public Safety Group.
“In determining whether plaintiff has diligently made out a ‘colorable case’ of personal jurisdiction, the Court must determine whether they have ‘present[ed] facts to the court which show why jurisdiction would be found if discovery were permitted,’” Judge Saylor wrote in the ruling in Mexico v. Smith & Wesson, et al. “Here, plaintiff has not come close to meeting its burden to show a ‘colorable case’ for personal jurisdiction.
“It has made no real showing as to what, if any, information that might likely be gleaned from limited jurisdictional discovery that could change the conclusion that the assertion of personal jurisdiction over the six defendants fails to meet either the Massachusetts long-arm statute or the requirements of constitutional due process. Accordingly, its request for discovery to cure the identified jurisdictional deficiencies is denied.”
The ruling marked the latest victory for gunmakers in the lawsuit. In September 2022, Judge F. Dennis Saylor ruled Mexico’s claims did not overcome the broad protection provided to gun manufacturers by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) passed in 2005. Unlike what President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris like to say, the law isn’t “blanket immunity” for the gun industry, but it does shield gun manufacturers from damages “resulting from the criminal or unlawful misuse” of a firearm.
“While the court has considerable sympathy for the people of Mexico, and none whatsoever for those who traffic guns to Mexican criminal organizations, it is duty-bound to follow the law,” Saylor wrote at the time.
The Mexican government, of course, appealed that decision. The lawsuit was spawned by Mexico’s accusation that American gun manufacturers undermined Mexico’s strict gun laws by designing, marketing and distributing “military-style assault weapons” in ways they knew would arm drug cartels and fuel murders, extortions and kidnappings.
The country said more than 500,000 guns are trafficked annually to Mexico from the United States, more than 68% of which are made by companies it sued. Of course, Mexico is largely a lawless country run by criminal drug cartels, so blaming American gunmakers for the carnage takes a long stretch of the imagination.
How about suing the cartels that are actually causing the carnage?
Or would that interrupt the payments from them to the Mexican government officials?
pretty much nailed it. when do we sue the cartels/government of mexico for killing us citizens.
You misspelled SHOOT as sue.
Mexico does have oil………..
“…Or would that interrupt the payments from them (the cartels) to the Mexican government officials?”
You think there aren’t American politicians also receiving cartel payments for ignoring the guns, drugs and illegals? How else can all this be explained?
Exactly! The C!A is profiting enormously from their “business as usual” model to create and maintain chaos in countries south of our border, so they can continue in their illicit drug trade operations. Can anyone say “Iran Contra,” with Reagan and Oliver North at the forefront of this scandal/
So you think the sanctuary cities/ states and commie politicians/officials that enable human smuggling by the cartels are a CIA op?
That is HILARIOUS!
For “The Company” narcotics trafficking is a tradition.
Illegals = bigtime racket. Those who create and run sanctuary cities seem highly indictable to my eye, but absolutely nobody talks about it.
Mex .gov suing the cartels would be like Peewee’s pecker suing his hand.
That said, I don’t see this as a victory – victory would be arrest warrants for the major players in the ongoing invasion.
Boy howdy, my Gurgle keyboard is pranking me frantically this AM – won’t capitalize first word, capitalizes random words in the sentence, changes commas into periods, autocorrects verbs into obscure place names, etc…
Average 6 typos per sentence.
Amateur etymology – ka = soul, mal = bad, and the pick of Walz just tells you how many commies the commies think they have. Gurgle = fascist pig.
Just having a little fun, there…
Suing the cartels is a good idea. Suing Mexico’s own defense officials would be even better. I’ve read multiple articles that 1/3 or more of arms purchased by the Mexican government are derailed into the cartel’s hands. Military corruption puts more guns into cartel armories than all the border traffic. What’s more, all of the heavier weapons that the cartels acquire come from the military. There are no gun stores on the border selling grenade launchers or machine guns, for instance.
Perhaps in the next Trump administration…
You are absolutely correct. This equipment is coming from someone’s military. Perhaps even some of our own
Good luck trying to personally serve the drug lords with a lawsuit, and even if you survived, it would be next to impossible to establish personal jurisdiction under the same test employed by the trial court here, especially since the vast majority of those murders occur in Mexico.
To get money from the cartels, you would have to raid HSBC (aka “The Cartel’s Bank”). But the CCP would complain.
Mexico needs to take a long look in the mirror….the problem is there, not here
The largest cartel in Mexico is the Mexican government. The Mexican government is a corrupt diabolical murderous enterprise. The majority of the “illegal” select fire weapons found in Mexico are either smuggled by the CHICOMS or “lost” from the Mexican military. Moreover, the central core belief of the Mexican state is that the United States is the enemy.
They are still sore about California, New Mexico, and Texas, and want their lost territories back.
I think give them California. They’ll find it more trouble than it is worth.
we once conquered Mexico…thought about it for awhile…then decided to give it back
“Judge Dismisses 6 of 8 American Companies From Mexico Lawsuit”
I don’t have ESP, what was tossed, and what stays?
Take another crack at paragraph two, sentence two.
He would but he’s “…too old for this shit.”
Bingo! 😉
“Take another crack at paragraph two, sentence two.”
OK, here we go :
““In determining whether plaintiff has diligently made out a ‘colorable case’ of personal jurisdiction, the Court must determine whether they have ‘present[ed] facts to the court which show why jurisdiction would be found if discovery were permitted,’” Judge Saylor wrote in the ruling in Mexico v. Smith & Wesson, et al. “Here, plaintiff has not come close to meeting its burden to show a ‘colorable case’ for personal jurisdiction.”
Care to translate that into English as to what part of the lawsuit stays, and what was tossed?
That’s Para 3. Para 2 sentence two (and three) are “Companies dismissed from the lawsuit by U.S. District Judge Dennis Saylor included Sturm, Ruger and Company, Glock, Barrett Firearms, Colt’s Manufacturing, Century International Arms and Beretta. Companies still involved in the lawsuit include gunmaker Smith & Wesson and wholesaler Whitmer Public Safety Group.”
Mexico sued eight companies. The judge tossed the suits against six of them, and allowed the case against the other listed two to proceed.
That was… paragraph 3. Ooh, so close.. eh, give him a trophy anyway.
Of course, Mexico is largely a lawless country run by criminal drug cartels, so blaming American gunmakers for the carnage takes a long stretch of the imagination.”
Not at all – criminals love other people’s money. Any excuse or no excuse will serve.
This whole thing is kinda like Mexico saying “we will ban guns and make America pay for it” yet somehow this isn’t incessantly mocked by the media. Probably because the majority share of the media both wants guns banned and simps for Mexico because of where they fall on the color wheel despite the nations penchant for lawlessness or perhaps because of it.
“This whole thing is kinda like Mexico saying “we will ban guns and make America pay for it” yet somehow this isn’t incessantly mocked by the media.”
Someone obviously whispered in their ear with a little suggestion as to what they wanted…
“Someone obviously whispered”
Commie is a very real headspace. Reporters know to do/say w/out being told…
…in order to stay alive.
Remember “they” have been playing the long game. “They” started infiltrating education and academia since the 1960s. The Cold War shenanigans of the USA provided fertile ground for resentment to grow in such areas. Students from these classes then spread to other educational institutions, government, bureaucracy, business, finance, etc.
This is the difference between chess players and poker players. The chess players crafted a system that even survived their own demise.
we had those kind of professors back in the 60’s…we’d nod approvingly…get our grade…then laugh uproariously at the silly son of a bitch as we exited the classroom…kids today seem to lack that level of sophistication….
RE: “Companies still involved in the lawsuit include gunmaker Smith & Wesson and wholesaler Whitmer Public Safety Group.”
What BS is behind the two “still involved?” They should class action sue Gun Control mexico and its US Gun Control cohorts for Defimation.
That would be a different motion. This one only dealt with whether the court had personal jurisdiction over six of the defendants. The court must have jurisdiction over the parties before the case can move forward against them.
If we had a president with real balls they would classify all the Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations and authorize remote airstrikes to target their leadership. Would love to see the NSA or CIA identify a cartel meeting at some villa only to see it obliterated by an F15E strike dropping a half dozen 2000lb JDAM’s. If we can strike in Syria and Yemen it would be much easier on this side of the pond. No different then chasing Pancho Villa.
….”Clear and Present Danger”?….
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