In a unanimous decision by Justice Elena #Kagan, #SCOTUS held that a lawsuit by the Mexican government was barred by #US #legislation that insulates #GunMakers from #liability. #Mexico, she wrote, had not plausibly argued that American #GunManufacturers had aided & abetted in unlawful #gun sales to Mexican #DrugTraffickers.
#SCOTUS Unanimously Blocks #Mexico’s Suit Against #US #Gunmakers
The case focused on whether the Mexican government could legally sue US manufacturers over claims that they shared blame for #violence by #DrugCartels.
#law #GunControl
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/supreme-court-mexico-gunmakers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=E03E6EF8-95E7-4709-83EF-07245DC9EC82
WHERE IS YOUR DATA? Without Consent, Gun Industry Gave Customers' #Info to Political Operatives
GUN OWNER LISTS: For years, #America's most iconic #GunMakers turned over sensitive #PersonalInformation on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives.
Those #PoliticalOperatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally #Firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for #Congress and the #WhiteHouse, a #ProPublica investigation has found....
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nationalnewswire/posts/1274219993503374/
Without Knowledge or Consent
For years, America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives.
Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.
“The hypocrisy of warning about a governmental registry and at the same time establishing a private registry for political purposes is stunning. Absolutely staggering.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal
D-Conn.
EVERYONE should know about this.
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
Gov. JB Pritzker signs new law allowing victims of gun violence to sue gun makers
#CBSNews #GunViolence #Illinois #FirearmIndustryResponsibilityAct #GunMakers #VictimsOfGunViolence #Politics #News
Gov. JB Pritzker signs new law allowing victims of gun violence to sue gun makers
American #gunmakers have been the leading supplier of #firearms to Guatemala for years, but following a #regulatory change in 2020, shipments have more than doubled. The vast majority have been #semiautomaticpistols, the weapon most commonly used in US #guncrimes...the number of #murders in Guatemala has risen annually, after 11 straight years of decline.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-gun-violence-border-crisis-guatemala/
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-made-gun-exports-shootings-violence-sig-sauer/
#businessasusual: growing number of #semiautomatic #handguns and rifles exported by #American #gunmakers and linked to #violentcrimes. With about 400 million civilian #firearms owned in the US, companies like Sig are seeking new buyers abroad, and they’ve found an eager ally: The #federalgovernment has helped push international sales of rapid-fire guns to record levels.
> The #NationalShootingSportsFoundation, a Newtown-based group that represents #gunmakers, said courts should not have allowed the case to proceed and it believes the plaintiffs would have lost at trial. It also said the settlement should have no effect on the The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, the 2005 federal law that shielded gun makers from liability.
I haven't seen much about stadium shootings. The name should be #NationalShootingSchoolsFoundation for Truth in #advertising.
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