The Supreme Court just came out with a 9-0 unanimous decision in favor of the Second Amendment. It’s kind of big. Imagine being held responsible for crimes committed by foreign drug cartels, crimes you didn’t commit in a country you don’t control or even live in. Well, that’s exactly what U.S. gun manufacturers were facing until just now when the Supreme Court stepped in with a unanimous 9-0 decision and slammed the door shut on the dangerous international overreach attempt. Hey everybody, my name is Jared with Guns and Gadgets, the premier source for Second Amendment News.

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A big thank you to Checkmate for being a sponsor of the channel. Links below. All right, back in 2021, I started reporting on this lawsuit. The government of Mexico sued several gun manufacturers here in America to include Smith & Wesson, Ruger, Barrett, Beretta, and Glock for a whopping 10 billion dollars, yeah, billion with a B, claiming that these companies were responsible for the cartel violence ravaging Mexico. Absolutely asinine. The argument was that US gun makers knew their products would be trafficked into Mexico and did nothing to stop it. And let’s be clear, these manufacturers sold firearms lawfully under strict federal and state regulations.

They did not sell them to cartels. They did not smuggle weapons across the border. Criminals did that. ATF did that. And yet Mexico wanted to hold law-abiding US companies accountable for criminal acts in another country committed by third parties. It’s one of the most aggressive legal attempts to undermine gun rights and American sovereignty in recent memory. So how did Mexico even hope to make this stick in an American court? Well, they tried to punch through the Protection of Lawful Commerce and Arms Act, or PLACO, or the PLCAA. This law was passed in 2005 signed by George Bush, and it protects gun manufacturers from being held liable when people misuse their products in criminal acts.

It’s the same kind of protection other industries have, like automakers not being sued when someone uses a car in a drunk driving incident or a car bombing. And Mexico argued that the PLCAA didn’t apply to foreign harm caused by US-made guns. Okay, and here’s where it gets wild. A federal judge initially dismissed the lawsuit, but the anti-gun, anti-American First Circuit Court of Appeals shockingly reversed that decision, saying the case could move forward, then sent chills through the entire firearms industry at the time, as well as the Second Amendment community. If allowed to proceed, this case could have opened the floodgates for foreign governments, activist judges, and anti-gun non-government organizations to sue American gun makers out of existence.

That was the entire goal here. But today, the United States Supreme Court stepped in and delivered a major win for the Second Amendment and American firearm manufacturers. In a powerful order, the court vacated the First Circuit’s decision and told the lower court to dismiss Mexico’s lawsuit. In plain English, they told the First Circuit, you got it wrong, PLCAA does apply, case closed. I mean, Justice Elena Kagan wrote the decision for the court here, and she’s no friend of the Second Amendment. And she said, the kinds of allegations Mexico makes cannot satisfy the demands of the statute’s predicate exemption.

She added, Mexico’s complaint, for the reasons given, does not plausibly allege such aiding and abetting. So this suit remains subject to PLCAA’s general bar, an action cannot be brought against a manufacturer if, like Mexico’s, it is founded on a third party’s criminal use of the company’s product. That’s big, coming from Kagan, believe me guys and gals. This wasn’t just a procedural win, it was a reaffirmation of PLCAA and a smackdown to the lawfare tactics meant to bankrupt the firearms industry. And let’s not forget, groups like Brady and Everytown were backing this Mexican lawsuit.

To them, this wasn’t about justice, it was about weaponizing the courts to attack our rights. This ruling sends a clear message to activist judges, to international bureaucrats, and to gun control extremists. America’s Second Amendment is not up for global negotiation. You don’t get to bypass Congress and rewrite our laws from foreign courtrooms. Had the Supreme Court not acted, we would be looking at scenarios where gun manufacturers might have pulled out of civilian markets altogether out of fear of endless litigation, or spiraling prices from increased liability costs, or even, eventually, fewer companies willing to make firearms at all.

Which, of course, is exactly what anti-gunners wanted here. The High Court’s intervention upholds the right of Americans to lawfully purchase and own firearms without punishing manufacturers for crimes that they didn’t commit. This is about due process, jurisdiction, and most importantly, preserving a lawful industry from being destroyed by politics masquerading as justice. So here’s the bottom line, folks. This wasn’t just a win for gun companies, it was a win for every gun owner in America. Because if they can sue the manufacturer out of existence, they don’t even need to ban guns, they just make them impossible to get.

We need to stay vigilant here. Lawfare is the new battlefield. Whether it’s the ATF changing rules on a whim, or foreign governments filing billion dollar lawsuits, the goal is always the same, to strip you and me of our rights by any means necessary. So let’s keep fighting, legally, politically, and culturally. Subscribe if you haven’t already, smash the like button, and share this video to let other people know that the United States Supreme Court just struck a huge blow against global gun control, and a big win for American liberty. And once again, thank you to our sponsor, Checkmate Mags, for standing behind freedom and supporting this channel.

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