It should be unthinkable for a U.S. state to side with a foreign government in a lawsuit challenging the constitutional rights of the American people, but California and others are doing precisely that.

Mexico’s troubled government is buckling under the weight of drug cartel violence and its unwillingness to destroy criminal organizations. Now, the southern neighbor is attacking Second Amendment rights enjoyed by law-abiding Americans to deflect from its own failures.

And California and other anti-gun states jumped on the bandwagon. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is now on record blasting California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) after his announcement of support for Mexican lawfare.

Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos is nothing more than an attempt by the Mexican government to destroy the U.S. gun industry. 

The U.S. Supreme Court announced in October that they will hear arguments over Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit now in federal court in Boston. The case was thrown out two years ago citing the specific law against such actions.

However, it found new life when the Boston-based 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the lawsuit could proceed despite federal protection of the industry. 

Gunmakers asked that the high court intervene in what amounted to a backdoor effort to impose Mexican gun control statutes on upstanding U.S. citizens.

In their filing on behalf of gun manufacturers, attorneys argued that “Mexico makes no secret that it abhors this country’s approach to firearms, and that it wants to use the American court system to impose domestic gun controls on the United States that the American people themselves would never accept through the ordinary political process.” 

The powerful Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which has existed for two decades, defends Second Amendment-related companies from such frivolous lawsuits.

PLCAA was enacted with bipartisan support to ward off a flurry of legal filings against the industry, which were designed to bankrupt these constitutionally protected manufacturers.

The mid-1990s saw a slew of lawyers and big cities attempting to line their pockets by fleecing weapons manufacturers on bogus legal charges. If enough compliant judges and juries were found, gun rights would be meaningless as there would be no one to provide them. 

Anti-gun attorneys boasted that legal fees alone would be enough to bring the industry crumbling to the ground.

Several cities and states opposed to the Second Amendment schemed to tear down the weapons industry, so Congress and President George W. Bush (R) acted to protect it from these attacks.

Unlike what critics charge, PLCAA is hardly a blanket immunity. The firearms industry is still subject to legal ramifications for willful acts and negligence resulting in liability.

It is only safeguarded from frivolous third-party lawsuits over misuse of its products. In other words, violent criminals are responsible for their own actions, and their behavior would not be blamed on innocent parties. 

That is PLCAA’s core.

Mexican authorities are attempting to unravel PLCAA provisions by arguing that the American gun industry “intend[s] to appeal to the Mexican cartels by depicting their firearms in patriotic advertisements featuring the American military, law enforcement, and American flags.

That is their argument. In a subversive way to attract pesos from Mexican drug cartels, U.S. companies proudly display iconic American imagery.

Never mind that domestic weapons manufacturers are right up there with the pharmaceutical industry as some of the most heavily regulated sectors.

And ignore the fact that there is zero evidence that these companies are intentionally funneling their wares across the southern border to the powerful cartels.

California is now aligned with 15 other anti-gun states attempting to tear down the Second Amendment-protected industry. It is wrong and shameful, and the Supreme Court should put an end to this utter foolishness.

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