LatinNews Daily - 9 June 2025

Mexico: On 5 June Mexico’s foreign ministry (SRE) said that it “strongly opposed” the US supreme court’s decision announced that day which found that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) grants immunity and shields arms manufacturers from legal liability. The ruling was in relation to a case brought by Mexico against US arms companies, manufacturer Smith & Wesson and wholesaler Interstate Arms, aiming to hold them responsible for facilitating arms trafficking to Mexico and the resulting violence. The two companies were among seven major US gun manufacturers and one wholesaler targeted in a case brought by the Mexican government in 2021. In August 2024 a federal judge threw out the case against six of the arms companies - Barrett, Beretta, Century Arms, Colt, Glock, and Ruger. In its statement, the SRE notes that Mexico will continue “taking all available measures to stop illegal gun trafficking, exhausting all available legal and diplomatic resources”. It adds that the 5 June US supreme court decision does not affect the course of the second lawsuit Mexico filed in Tucson, Arizona, in 2022, against five gun stores which “continues to advance and is currently in the discovery phase”.

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