A coalition of state attorneys general last week urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case brought by the Mexican government against American gun manufacturers. The 27 prosecutors filed an amicus brief over the attempt to blame the Second Amendment-protected industry for Mexico’s rampant violence.

The scourge of drug cartels battling each other and the federal government led political leaders to seek to pin blame elsewhere. They found a target north of the border and filed suit in 2021.

Separate from that filed by prosecutors, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and a host of fellow federal lawmakers submitted another brief. The members of Congress labeled the lawsuit “an affront to American sovereignty” and declared it attempted to make upstanding U.S. citizens subject to Mexican law.

Other critics charged this litigation is merely an effort to deflect attention from failed government policies and the inability of Mexican authorities to curb cartel lawlessness.

The suit appeared dead when a federal judge in Massachusetts last year dismissed the international case. But that was only a temporary setback.

The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, with strong backing from anti-gun California and its brethren, revived Mexico’s lawsuit. 

Last week’s action was led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R), a strong gun rights supporter. He and his colleagues requested that the bench halt “a foreign sovereign’s use of American courts to effectively limit the rights of American citizens.”

Knudsen correctly noted the authority of Congress to balance Second Amendment protections with the need to disarm violent criminals. That, he explained, did not satisfy anti-gun zealots.

“So, they turned to the judiciary. Their admitted goal: to circumvent the political branches by turning the courts into regulators via creative legal theories and tenuous chains of causation.”

The AG added that Second Amendment opponents want to wield the mere threat of a historic judgment against the industry to punish gun manufacturers.

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