“Simply put, Mexico’s suit threatens to undermine American sovereignty and constitutional liberty, and it has no business in this country’s courts.”The Mexican government sued the big gun companies, accusing them of fueling cartel violence in the country. The government also blamed America’s gun laws.“Unless this Court intervenes, the federal courts in the American Northeast are now open to suits by every foreign government that wants to curtail the American firearms industry,”.
If the Mexican government wants to blame anyone except for itself because that’d be too easy, it should go after Eric Holder. Plaintiff Estados Unidos Mexicanos , a sovereign nation, brings this action to put an end to the massive damage that the Defendants cause by actively facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels and other criminals in Mexico. Almost all guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico—70% to 90% of them—were trafficked from the U.S. The Defendants include the six U.S.