USSC Unanimously Rejects Mexico’s Lawsuit Against Gun Manufacturers

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Mexico failed to plausibly allege that gun manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers.  The Mexican government sued several gun manufacturers in the United States, attempting to rely on the predicate exception to the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which may come from aiding and abetting someone else’s firearms offense.  The Court, through Justice Kagan, rejected the claim:

Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers. We have little doubt that, as the complaint asserts, some such sales take place—and that the manufacturers know they do. But still, Mexico has not adequately pleaded what it needs to: that the manufacturers “participate in” those sales “as in something that [they] wish[] to bring about,” and “seek by [their] action to make” succeed.

The opinion is here:  Download 23-1141_lkgnhere.