Mexico’s Gun Manufacturer Lawsuit Revived by First Circuit (1)

Gun manufacturers must face a first-of-its-kind lawsuit brought by Mexico over the criminal misuse of weapons on foreign soil, the First Circuit said Monday.

Mexico claims that firearm giants, including Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. and Glock Inc., purposefully design and manufacture weapons that can easily be modified to fire automatically, attracting cartels and violating both US law and Mexican tort law.

“The aspects of defendants’ businesses that facilitate trafficking are not unfortunate and unintended byproducts of a lawful enterprise. Rather, they are the result of defendants’ affirmative and deliberate efforts to create and maintain an illegal market for their ...