The Supreme Court has said gun companies should not face a lawsuit in which the Mexican government was trying to hold them liable for cartel-related violence involving firearms from the United States.
In a 9–0 decision on June 5, the court said that the allegations gun companies faced weren’t the type that, if proven, would make them liable under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
The law generally protects firearms companies from lawsuits based on criminals misusing their products, but it contains an exception. More specifically, the law allows companies to face lawsuits if they knowingly violated state or federal law and if that violation was a proximate cause of a given harm….