{"id":3348,"date":"2024-05-27T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2024-05-27T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T12:00:35","slug":"fpc-nra-file-briefs-with-supreme-court-over-mexico-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3348","title":{"rendered":"FPC, NRA File Briefs With Supreme Court Over Mexico Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Doug Howlett Photo\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"477\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-696x477.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-696x477.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-700x480.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-768x527.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-150x103.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-218x150.jpeg 218w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-1068x733.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-612x420.jpeg 612w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-100x70.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2-560x384.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mexico-Guns-Sign-leetle-copy-2.jpeg 1509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mexico Guns Sign leetle copy 2\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Howlett Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The case involving Mexico\u2019s lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers and retailers for violence south of the border is beginning to see some action from pro-gun rights organizations.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, both the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and the National Rifle Association (NRA) filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a review of lower court decisions regarding Mexico\u2019s attempts to impose its gun-control preferences on Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexico\u2019s frivolous lawsuit to impose its draconian disarmament policies is a bald attempt to wage war on peaceable Americans and our constitutionally protected rights,\u201d FPC President Brandon Combs said in a release announcing filing of the brief. \u201cAs our brief makes clear, the Supreme Court should enforce the law, put an end to this radical anti-rights lawfare and protect the right to keep and bear arms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexico\u2019s attempt in this litigation to impose a foreign nation\u2019s policy preferences on the American people through judicial fiat and exact a financial penalty that would cripple the American firearms ecosystem would be deeply troubling even if it stood alone,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/DocketPDF\/23\/23-1141\/310383\/20240522121627759_2024-05-22%20Smith%20and%20Wesson%20Amicus%20Final.pdf\">FPC brief<\/a> stated. \u201cIt does not. To the contrary, this action is merely one of a phalanx of recent, abusive lawsuits brought by anti-Second-Amendment activists, organizations and governments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the brief requested that the Supreme Court grant a review and intervene in the important case to protect gunmakers and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). In an earlier ruling, the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the PLCAA does not bar Mexico\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe situation has accordingly become dire, and the time for this Court\u2019s intervention is now,\u201d the brief stated. \u201cIn the four-and-a-half years since this Court declined to review the Connecticut Supreme Court\u2019s decision in <em>Soto<\/em>, the chief development has been the contrivance of ever more devious and extreme methods of evading the Act Congress passed to save the firearms community from abusive litigation. If the Court allows the lower-court\u2019s treatment of the PLCAA to \u2018percolate for another four-and-a-half years, there may be nothing left of the firearms marketplace to save.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/shared.nrapvf.org\/sharedmedia\/1511920\/s-w-v-mexico-5-22-24.pdf\">NRA brief<\/a>, the organization stated: \u201cMexico has extinguished its constitutional arms right and now seeks to extinguish America\u2019s. To that end, Mexico aims to destroy the American firearms industry financially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case exemplifies why PLCAA was enacted,\u201d the brief continued. \u201cMexico seeks billions of dollars in damages and the imposition of extensive gun controls in America while relying on shoddy data and false allegations to exaggerate the impact of Petitioners\u2019 firearms on Mexican homicides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is named <em>Smith &amp; Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/fpc-nra-file-briefs-with-supreme-court-over-mexico-lawsuit\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Howlett Photo The case involving Mexico\u2019s lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers and retailers for violence south of the border is beginning to see some action from pro-gun rights organizations. On Wednesday, both the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and the National Rifle Association (NRA) filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a review of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}