27 States Urge Supreme Court to Review Mexico’s Case Against US Gunmakers

‘Mexico and anti-gun activists are trying to blame and bankrupt American companies that follow the law,’ Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said.

Law enforcement agents stand behind seized weapons bound for Mexico during a press conference in Laredo, Texas, on July 2, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

A group of 27 Republican attorneys general is calling on the Supreme Court to review a $10 billion lawsuit filed by the Mexican government, which seeks to hold U.S. gun manufacturers responsible for the large number of firearms being trafficked across the southern border.

In a filing with the nation’s highest court on May 21, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, along with 25 of his GOP colleagues, asked the court to hear the case to prevent what they described as a foreign sovereign from “hauling the American firearms industry into court seeking redress for purely extra-territorial harms caused by third-party criminal conduct.”