The Supreme Court can bend to US companies fighting in Mexico process for cartel violence

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The Supreme Court of the US seemed to be inclined to join American weapons companies that want to reject the Mexico process, which claims that these companies feed the violence of the cartel, helping illegal traffic traffic.

The Mexico trial of 2021 accuses Smith and Wesson and Interstate Arms of knowingly provided weapons to dealers selling to traffickers. A lower court allowed the case to take place, but the companies claimed that they are protected by the 2005 -of -weapon Legal Trade Protection Law.

The lawyer of the companies, Noel Francisco, compared the case with the possession of Budweiser for driving in a state of intoxication, a resounding concern by the conservative judges.

“In the US, you have to wait for you (21) to buy Budweiser,” said Jusionyte, the author of the book Output wounds: The way weapons in America feed violence across the border“But you can buy an AR-15 or 10 AR-15 or 100 AR-15 when you are only 18 years old.”

The violence of weapons powered by American firearms continues to affect Mexico’s economy, security and migration. As President Trump preys Mexico on fentanel and migration, Mexico pushes the US to address the trafficking in political weapons.

“These weapons of narrative change are part of the conversation about migration and drug trafficking, so it is already an important achievement of this process,” Jusionyte added.

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision until June.