27 Republican States Urge Supreme Court to Review Mexico’s Lawsuit Against US Gun Manufacturers

A group of 27 Republican attorneys general is calling on the Supreme Court to review a $10 billion lawsuit filed by the Mexican government, which seeks to hold U.S. gun manufacturers responsible for the large number of firearms being trafficked across the southern border. In a filing with the nation’s highest court on Tuesday, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, along with 25 of his GOP colleagues, asked the court to hear the case to prevent what they described as a foreign sovereign from “hauling the American firearms industry into court seeking redress for purely extra-territorial harms caused by third-party criminal conduct.” The speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives and president of the Arizona Senate also joined in filing the amicus brief, which argues that anti-gun activists are using the judiciary to attempt to “crush the firearms industry” and take guns away from Americans, in violation of their Second Amendment rights....