By: Gina Morelli
Anti-gunners are terrified of what the Supreme Court might do.
Kamala Harris and her friends in the gun control lobby should be very nervous.
This agreement that the Supreme Court just made on gun control could change everything.
People who are invested in fighting against the Second Amendment have been very excited by a lawsuit that was filed by the Mexican government.
That lawsuit is seeking to target gun manufacturers in America for supposedly playing a role in guns reaching the hands of cartels across the border.
Of course, the gun manufacturers are not the ones who put the guns in the hands of the cartels. They simply manufactured the guns.
But what the Mexican government, the gun control lobby, and powerful Democrats are trying to do here is to make manufacturing a gun akin to committing a crime in and of itself.
This would destroy the gun industry and make guns nearly inaccessible for most Americans, functionally eliminating the Second Amendment even though it would technically still be on the books.
The Biden administration and Kamala Harris have tried similar strategies as well.
The one wild card here though was always the Supreme Court, and now it appears that they will take up the case.
According to The Truth About Guns, “The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the case concerning Mexico suing some U.S. gun manufacturers for allegedly putting guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
“Mexico claims the companies deliberately chose to ‘profit off the criminal market for their products’ and caused a flood of guns to fall into the hands of Mexican cartels. And the Mexican government wants the companies to pay billions of dollars in damages.”
These companies cannot control what people do with the guns after they are bought, any more than a car manufacturer can control whether that car gets used in a crime.
It is not their fault that a tiny percentage of their guns ended up in the wrong hands, as these companies did not do anything reckless that would have led to that outcome.
The article continues, “In August, a Federal Judge in Boston dismissed several companies from the lawsuit, including Sturm, Ruger and Company, Glock, Barrett Firearms, Colt’s Manufacturing, Century International Arms and Beretta. Companies still involved in the lawsuit include gunmaker Smith & Wesson and wholesaler Whitmer Public Safety Group.
“Of course, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) precludes frivolous lawsuits against the firearm industry for damages caused by the criminal and unlawful acts of remote third parties. Consequently, a U.S. District court dismissed the case, finding the claims were barred by the PLCAA.”
Now it seems likely that the Supreme Court will finish off this case once and for all and make it clear that a foreign country cannot interfere with the freedom of Americans to own guns.
This will set an important precedent that will likely stand for years to come and allow gun owners to rest easy that one key strategy by the gun control lobby will be off the table for good.