Posted on 03/28/2024 9:22:53 AM PDT by Bonemaker
Mexico can continue to sue five Arizona gun businesses over criminal gun trafficking through the southern border, a federal judge ruled Monday.
US District Judge Rosemary Marquez denied the firearms dealers’ request to have the case dismissed under the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). She rejected claims that the statute, which generally prohibits lawsuits against the gun industry for crimes committed by third parties, barred Mexico’s allegations that the gun dealers’ sales practices helped fuel criminal violence south of the border. She found Mexico met the bar to carry on with some of its claims, such as negligent entrustment of firearms to dangerous buyers or unjust enrichment through those sales, while tossing several others.
“The Court finds that Plaintiff’s Complaint adequately alleges that Defendants were unjustly enriched by Plaintiff bearing the costs of correcting harm that Defendants caused for purposes of increasing their profits,” Judge Marquez wrote in Mexico v. Diamondback Shooting Sports et al. “Plaintiff has also alleged a connection between, and an absence of justification for, the enrichment and impoverishment: Defendants profit from selling firearms to straw purchasers and firearm traffickers, Defendants’ sales result in the flow of firearms to cartels in Mexico, and Plaintiff bears the cost of harm inflicted by the resultant cartel violence.”
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They have a pretty good defense. We conduct federally mandated background checks on all firearm purchases. These background checks cleared the sale.
Anything to avoid prosecution for obama and holder for fast and furious. It would be akin to giving Manson a walk and only prosecuting the kids.
Remember this is what the Feds wanted to occur that caused them to create Crossfire Hurricane scam
Because Holder is the one running the Lawfare operation.
He was the one Obama wanted to replace RBG.
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