Mexico wants to sue US gunmakers
ROS sends a link to a CBS News report in which Mexico admits it’s planning a civil RICO lawsuit against US gun manufacturers because it’s”frustrated” about US government’s inability to stem the flow of weapons south.
Christopher Renzulli of New York, who has represented U.S. gun makers for fifteen years, says he believes this would be a difficult case for the Mexican government to win. “The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act would bar that kind of lawsuit from the start. The law, passed in 2005 has resulted in several lawsuits against gun makers being dismissed.
But sources familiar with the case say the law firm retained by Mexico – New York based Reid Collins & Tsai – believes the federal law won’t stand in the way of their case.
If the courts allow this case to go forward, the US taxpayers ought to band together and counter-sue Mexico for their inability to stem the flow of Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatemalans and any other types of foreigners into our country illegally. They should be sued so we can recover the costs of trying to secure our border as well as the costs of caring for those criminals while they’re here.
If US gun makers are responsible for the deaths in Mexico, Mexico is equally responsible for their citizens and the costs they inflict on the US taxpayers. Not to mention the crimes they commit after they illegally cross the border.
Category: Guns, Illegal Immigrants
Countersue Mexico? I’m in- had some break into my garage one day while I was shopping and I arrived as they were almost finished Looting it. All arrested all were Illegals.
I’ll settle for 46 million pesos, Senor Calderone.
I’d be frustrated too, but this is estupido.
Good thinking on the counter-suit. Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and if anyone not blitzed on faery dust can be found in California, should sue them back into the stone age, for their FLAMING hypocrisy, if nothing else.
How the Mexicans treat people at their southern border is a sin.
SCOTUS has already exempted gun makers from criminal and civil liability for the misuse of their products by individuals, so I don’t see where this suit will go anywhere.
However, with Holder being the mafia-type lawyer that he is, and with the mafia-mentality of this administration, I wouldn’t rule anything out at this point.
How do you sue someone who makes a product when the US government is the entity which allowed the guns across the border in the first place (Gunwalker?)
Yeah, we should sue the Mexican government since they have been enabling their citizens to infiltrate our country for years. They have provided them with maps, water, pamphlets on where to go, etc., plus, through their consulates, have been giving them id cards that the Mexican government has been pushing for us to accept. So, I say to the Mexican government; fuck you.
In the words of the State Farm commercial, can I get a Fuck You, for Mexico?
I arrested illegals a lot of the time, over the years. Can I sue for the emotional toll that has taken on me? I’m unable to go to Cabo or Cozumel, for fear I’ll run into one or more of the ones that got shipped home. The trauma!!!!
WAOI out of San Antonio was reporting this last week. The world has gone crazy, but I think we already knew that…
Dear Mexico,
We’ll trade you all your guns for Texass.
Love,
Me
Not sure if like the sound of that.
What does Mexico get out of it? All of this legal BS serves the political agenda of American Progressives, but the case will highlight the illegals again, which is counterproductive to Mexico.
Mexico’s ruling elite want Mexicans crossing the border and sending their dollars home where it can be taxed and injected into the Mexican economy.
Hell, no, ROS.
~Miss Ladybug in Texas
I’d even throw in some cheap tequila if they did. 🙂
“If US gun makers are responsible for the deaths in Mexico”
The US gun makers are especially guilty for the deaths caused by RPGs, mortars, grenades, belt fed machine guns and the AK-47s that are being captured in Mexico, esp. the ones with North Korean markings on them…
What Miss Ladybug said. Lived most of my life there.
I’ve known ROS for more than a decade and she’s spent the whole time complaining every minute about living in Texas as if someone chained her to a scrub oak or something.
It’s a mesquite, but close enough. 🙂
I live in south Texas near Highway 59, one of the most heavily trafficked thoroughfares in relation to illegals and drugs. In the past year alone, tons of drugs and scores of illegals have been taken, as well as 2 illegals who enjoyed raping elderly women and murdering people. The last one was captured 3 miles from my home. Highway 87 intersects 59 in Victoria. That would be where the semi trailer was abandoned and dozens of illegals died inside a few years back.
My stepfather worked in CID for Calhoun County for years before calling it quits late last year. One of the last items that came across his desk was that of a memo and description of an illegal who’d been previously arrested for kidnapping an American toddler, killing him, and hiding drugs in his abdomen before attempting to smuggle them across.
And thus the reasoning for my dislike of the area, along with the fact that my mother lives here. 😀