The Supreme Court casts the continuation of Mexico against manufacturers of American firearms

Washington – Mexico has a serious problem of armed violence, which comes from the north of the border, recognized the Supreme Court on Thursday.

“The country has only one shot of firearms and offers less than 50 firearms permits each year. But firearm traffickers can buy firearms in the United States – often in illegal transactions – and deliver them to drug cartels in Mexico,” said the court. These weapons are used to “commit serious crimes – drug trafficking, kidnapping, murder and others”.

Nevertheless, the judges in a unanimous decision Throwing the trial of Mexico against the American firearm industry, judging that federal law protects manufacturers of firearms from almost any responsibility.

Justice Elena Kagan said the Congress promulgated the law in 2005 to prevent fire arms companies from being prosecuted “caused by the excessive use of firearms by third parties, including criminals,” she said.

The law has a close exception, she said, which would continue the prosecution if the firing arms companies have knowingly and deliberately helped the criminals to buy firearms in Mexico.

But she said that the Mexico trial had not cited proofs of complaint.

“The complaint of Mexico does not plaus that the manufacturers of defendants have helped and encouraged illegal sales of firearms of firearms of Mexican traffickers,” she wrote. “We only doubt, as the complaint says, some sales take place – and the manufacturers know that they do. But still, Mexico has not adequately pleaded what it needs: that manufacturers participate in “these sales, as in something that (they) wish to provoke”.