Mexico Sues Major Gun Makers in U.S. Court

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s authorities is suing a group of U.S.-based mostly weapons brands in U.S. federal court docket, arguing that the companies actively aid the trafficking of guns to Mexican drug cartels by their negligence.

In the civil lawsuit submitted Wednesday in U.S. District Courtroom in Boston, the Mexican authorities reported that the gun brands have been negligent and complicit in driving the violence that Mexico has endured from drug cartels and other criminal businesses in current many years.

Prison gang violence has spiraled in Mexico, home of some of the world’s most vicious cartels, causing additional than a hundred and fifty,000 fatalities and leaving tens of thousands of people disappeared considering the fact that 2006.

It is the to start with time that a overseas region has sued gun brands in the U.S., according to Adam Skaggs, main counsel and plan director at Giffords Regulation Centre to Reduce Gun Violence, an advocacy group.

Amongst the companies being sued are industry giants these as Smith & Wesson Brand names Inc., Barrett Firearms Producing Inc., Colt’s Producing Co. and Glock Inc.