The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Mexican government cannot sue Smith & Wesson and other gun manufacturers for violence committed in Mexico with American-made weapons. Mexico wanted to ...

The gun manufacturers, Mexico claimed, have been complicit in allowing their products to flow unrestricted across the border and into the hands of criminal cartels. Below, ...

Mexico sued Smith & Wesson and six other US gunmakers for $10 billion in damages, alleging that the companies design and market their guns specifically to drug cartels that then use them in the ...

Mexico never alleged that the gun manufacturers directly sold guns to Mexican cartels, actively conspired with gun traffickers, or even intended for Mexican cartels to use their products.

That includes doing business with dealers who repeatedly sell large quantities of guns to cartel traffickers, Mexico's counsel alleged. Firearms makers, led by Smith & Wesson Brands, said the ...

Mexico sued seven gun manufacturers in 2021, seeking to pull the linchpin from the crime gun pipeline. U.S. gunmakers are an essential component of cartel violence, Mexico argued, because it maintains ...

In 2021, Mexico sued several gun manufacturers and one gun distributor under a variety of tort claims, trying to hold them liable for the gun-violence epidemic harming the country.

“Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers,” Kagan wrote for the court. “We have ...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday against a lawsuit filed by Mexico that accuses seven American gun manufacturers and one wholesaler of unlawful sale practices and arming drug dealers.

Left: A person rests in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 5, 2025. Right: Guns seized by the Mexican Army, National Guard, and State Police are displayed in Tijuana on August 8, 2024.

The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a lawsuit from the Mexican government that alleged American gun manufacturers should be held responsible for cartel violence on the Southwest border, a ...