Supreme Court rejects Mexico lawsuit against US gunmakers

The United States Supreme Court prevented a lawsuit filed by Mexico, which sought to hold American arms makers to play a role in the country’s struggle with drug gangs.

The court voted 9-0 to reject the lawsuit, in the 2005 law that supports weapons manufacturers from responsibility if the weapons they produce are offended.

The Mexico government argued that the “flooding” of illegal weapons across the border is the result of “deliberate” practices by American companies that they say have resumed the Cartel members of their products.

The decision flipping the minimum court decision allows the lawsuit, which was submitted against Smith and Weeson, as well as other manufacturers, to move forward.

The case is the first time that the court has taken over the Shield Law, known as the Protection of the Legal Trade Law in weapons, or PLCAA.

In a hearing in March, the court seemed skeptical in the Mexico challenge, with judges on both sides of the ideological spectrum that questions the validity of the case.