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Supreme Court rules against Mexico in its lawsuit against U.S. gunmakers The Mexican government had argued that U.S. companies were responsible for cartel violence caused with American-made military-style weapons.

June 5, 2025, 10:16 AM EDT / Updated June 5, 2025, 10:36 AM EDT

By Jordan Rubin

The Supreme Court sided with the firearms industry in ruling that Mexico’s novel lawsuit didn’t plausibly allege that gun companies had aided and abetted unlawful sales routing guns to Mexican drug cartels.

“In asserting that the manufacturers intentionally supply guns to bad-apple dealers, Mexico never confronts that the manufacturers do not directly supply any dealers, bad-apple or otherwise,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a unanimous court .

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