Malik Graystone, "Navigating Legal Waters in Mexico’s Suit Against U.S. Gunmakers", The Stock Dork, 24 Jan 2024.
Points made include:
_ Mexico’s lawsuit alleges that U.S. gunmakers have intentionally enabled illegal gun trafficking into Mexico.
_ Mexico’s lawsuit claims the sunset of the U.S. 1994 Assault Weapon Ban in 2004 led to increased gun violence in Mexico.
_ Kostas Moros, California Rifle & Pistol Association, labeled Mexico’s arguments unrealistic, citing to Mexico’s high homicide rates before and during the 1994-2004 AWB experiment.
_ Twenty U.S. State Attorney Generals filed an amicus brief opposing Mexico’s lawsuit: they argue that the increase in Mexican homicide rates was not due to the sunset of the 1994 AWB but rather due to Mexico’s internal conflict with drug cartels. The AGs also contended only a minority of the guns found at Mexican crime scenes traced back to the US and many of those were U.S. guns sold to Mexican military and police and illegally diverted in Mexico to the cartels.
Boys, girls, and ships at sea, in Carl N. Brown's not so humble opinion, the Mexican drug cartel violence skyrocketed when Mexican President Calderon declared war on the cartels, Mexican military and police killed or jailed many of the "businssmen" running the cartels, and the cartels were left in the control of the cartel enforcers, the Los Zetas types, whose mode of operation was not to make deals, to divide territorys, and to bribe police, but was simply to kill their rivals.
