Mexico never alleged that the gun manufacturers directly sold guns to Mexican cartels, actively conspired with gun traffickers, or even intended for Mexican cartels to use their products.

Mexico was seeking an unspecified amount of monetary damages, estimated in the range of $10 billion, and a court order requiring gun companies to change their practices.

The court held that Mexico’s 2021 lawsuit against seven U.S. gun manufacturers is barred under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).

Mexico wanted to sue for $10 billion in damages, but the justices said it is not plausible that gun manufacturers aided and abetted gun traffickers, and therefore, they are not liable.

Mexico sued seven gun manufacturers in 2021, seeking to pull the linchpin from the crime gun pipeline. U.S. gunmakers are an essential component of cartel violence, Mexico argued, because it maintains ...

In 2021, Mexico sued several gun manufacturers and one gun distributor under a variety of tort claims, trying to hold them liable for the gun-violence epidemic harming the country.

"Those guns may be 'coveted by the cartels,' as Mexico alleges; but they also may appeal, as the manufacturers rejoin, to 'millions of law-abiding Hispanic Americans,'" Kagan wrote.

The Supreme Court is handing a big win to American firearms manufacturers by blocking a $10 billion lawsuit brought by the government of Mexico seeking to blame the industry for violence south of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against top firearm manufacturers in the U.S. alleging the companies’ business practices have fueled ...

Gun manufacturers appealed to the high court after a lower federal court allowed Mexico's lawsuit to move forward under an exception in the law for when companies themselves are accused of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is tossing out a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against top firearm manufacturers alleging the companies have fueled cartel gun violence ...

That includes doing business with dealers who repeatedly sell large quantities of guns to cartel traffickers, Mexico's counsel alleged. Firearms makers, led by Smith & Wesson Brands, said the ...