The lawsuit, the second filed by Mexico, targets gun shops or dealers in U.S. border states who sell guns to “straw” purchasers who pass them on to smugglers, who then take the weapons across the border.
Staff and wire The government of Mexico sued three Tucson gun shops and two others elsewhere in Arizona Monday, accusing them of knowingly arming Mexico's drug cartels.
Mexico's first lawsuit, which was recently dismissed, targeted U.S. gun manufacturers, while this one targets retailers that, the new lawsuit claims, knowingly sell guns to"straw" purchasers, who pass them to smugglers who take them into Mexico. Mexico has very strict restrictions on weapon possession, but thousands of weapons get through, and organized-crime violence has cost hundreds of thousands of lives in the country in recent years.
"A small minority of gun dealers — fewer than 10% — sell about 90% of crime guns," the lawsuit says."Defendants are part of the small percentage of dealers that sell virtually all crime guns recovered in Mexico. Arizona is a hotbed of the unlawful gun trafficking into Mexico; these Defendants made it so."
The announcement comes several days after a U.S. federal judge dismissed Mexico’s first lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers. The judge ruled Mexico’s claims did not overcome the broad protection provided to gun manufacturers by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act passed in 2005. Ebrard said Mexico would appeal that decision.
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