The Mexican government on August 4 filed a lawsuit against leading gun manufacturers in Massachusetts federal court, VICE News reports. The filing states they are “actively facilitating the unlawful trafficking of their guns to drug cartels and other criminals in Mexico.”

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VICE Reports:

The lawsuit names among others Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock and Ruger. Their guns are the ones most often recovered in Mexico, according to the complaint from the Mexican government. It also lists Barrett, “whose .50 caliber sniper rifle is a weapon of war prized by the drug cartels,” and the Boston-area wholesaler “Interstate Arms,” which sells the guns of all but one of the companies.

This move by Mexico appears to be unprecedented, but it wasn’t surprising. Mexico, VICE reports, has been complaining for years that “the U.S. has failed to effectively address the trafficking of arms from the U.S. to Mexico.”

According to VICE:

While Mexico has just one gun store in the country and issues fewer than 50 permits per year, an estimated half a million guns flow into Mexico annually from the U.S., the lawsuit alleges. In 2019, 17,000 Mexican citizens were murdered with guns manufactured in the U.S. — compared with only 14,000 American citizens, the complaint says.

“Defendants are not accidental or unintentional players in this tragedy; they are deliberate and willing participants, repeating profits from the criminal market they knowingly supply — heedless of the shattering consequences to the Government and its citizens,” the lawsuit states.

Source: Mexican Government Sues U.S. Gun Industry for Arming Drug Cartels