© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Guns are displayed within the Drugs Museum, utilized by the army to showcase to troopers the life of Mexican drug lords, on the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Mexico City, October 14, 2016. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo
By Sarah Morland
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has filed an enchantment in a civil lawsuit towards U.S.-based gun producers, it stated on Wednesday, because it seems to crack down on the trafficking of weapons to highly effective drug cartels.
A U.S. decide in September dismissed the $10 billion lawsuit looking for to carry U.S. gun makers chargeable for facilitating the trafficking of lethal weapons throughout the border.
“A favorable decision in the court of appeals will allow the government to prove its case on the merits – that the gun manufacturers’ marketing and distribution practices amount to actively facilitating the trafficking of their guns into Mexico,” the federal government stated in an announcement.
“There is a correlation between the negligent practices of companies and the arms trafficking that leads to violence in Mexico, as well as other crimes such as human trafficking and drug trafficking,” it added.
The difficulty of gun violence in Mexico has drawn new scrutiny on either side of the border in latest days following the cartel-linked kidnapping of 4 Americans within the northern state of Tamaulipas, throughout which two of them and a Mexican bystander had been killed.
The authorities’s enchantment is focusing on Smith and Wesson Brands Inc and Sturm, Ruger and Co, in addition to Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc, Beretta USA Corp, Colt’s Manufacturing Co, Century International Arms Inc, Witmer Public Safety Group Inc and pistol-maker Glock Inc.
Reuters contacted the entire corporations however none instantly responded to a request for remark.
Mexico just isn’t the one nation within the area to be suffering from gun violence.
Caribbean leaders at a summit final month mentioned tighter measures to cease U.S.-made weapons from being trafficked to Haiti the place gangs are fueling a humanitarian disaster.
