The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that The Government of Mexico filed a second lawsuit in Arizona to combat illicit arms traffickingagainst five stores that provide weapons to criminal organizations in Mexico.
The Foreign Ministry pointed out that this Monday the Government of Mexico filed a new lawsuit before the Federal District Court of Tucson against five gun stores in Arizona.
“The lawsuit alleges that said sellers routinely and systematically participate in the illicit trafficking of weapons, including military-type weapons, for criminal organizations in Mexico through sales to straw purchasers and sales that are directed to arms dealers,” said the SRE.
The lawsuit states that all five stores are among Arizona sellerswhose weapons are most frequently recovered in Mexico.
The Foreign Ministry stated that the defendant companies are Diamondback Shooting Sports, Inc. (Tucson); SNG Tactical, LLC (Tucson); Loan Prairie, LLC, known as The Hub Target Sports (Tucson); Ammo AZ, LLC (Phoenix), and Sprague’s Sports, Inc. (Yuma).
He pointed out that the litigation is part of a multifaceted strategy of the Government of Mexico to stop the avalanche of weapons, particularly assault weapons, coming from the United States, which empower criminal groups, cause bloodshed in Mexico and contribute to drug trafficking into that country.
He argued that this legal action in no way questions the constitutional right of US citizens to bear arms, nor the right of stores to sell their products responsibly and in accordance with the law.
The demand underlined the Secretary of Foreign Relationsinvolves a common cause of both countries whose citizens suffer from the illicit practices of firearms.
He mentioned that the earlier lawsuit filed in Boston, Massachusetts, was the first filed by a national government against the US gun industry.
He stressed that the lawsuit filed in Arizona is the first civil lawsuit filed by a national government against arms dealers in the United States who supply the criminal market.
On his social networks, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard noted that Mexico filed a lawsuit in Arizona against arms dealers and traffickers.
“We are not going to give up because only if we reduce the availability of weapons in Mexico will we also reduce the violence we suffer,” he said.
The SRE pointed out that this second lawsuit filed in Arizona contains several arguments: that the sellers do not comply with due care to which they are obliged, cause foreseeable damage, use misleading and tendentious advertising, sell weapons that are modified into automatic weapons, cause alteration to the public order and violate state and federal laws, which causes enormous damage in Mexican territory.
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According to the dependency, a favorable sentence in this litigation will support the first lawsuit filed in Boston, since it would prove that the manufacturing companies are negligent for not monitoring or disciplining the vendors who sell their products.
He pointed out that the lawyers who lead the legal strategy of the Government of Mexico are Steve Shadowen, of Shadowen PLLC in Austin, Texas, and Jonathan Lowy, of Global Action on Gun Violence in Washington, DC
“Both are jurists of recognized prestige in the United States on the issue of cross-border damage and arms control,” the Foreign Ministry said.
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