In a simply nonsensical turn of events, attorney generals from 18 Democrat-run states have joined together to file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Mexico’s lawsuit against U.S. gunmakers and firearms retailers.
Led by rabidly anti-gun and now anti-American California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the AGs came down on the wrong side of the issue, choosing to side with Mexico’s corrupt government rather than Americans working in a highly regulated industry. As usual, the AGs blame violent crime on guns, not criminals—or in this case, bloody cartel members. It is a move that signals they are willing to support the corrupt Mexican government and in so doing, reveal the level of their own corrupt activities that border on treason.
“It is our duty to ensure that companies are held accountable when they violate the law—manufacturers and distributors of firearms who threaten the safety of our communities are no exception,” Bonta said in a press release detailing the action. “PLCAA does not give gun manufacturers and distributors a free pass to create and distribute weapons they know are being trafficked and used to terrorize communities, in both Mexico and the United States.” Meanwhile, sneaking into the country, dealing drugs and trafficking firearms and humans are all illegal and currently going largely unpunished by Bonta and many other Democratic attorneys general.
This latest move by anti-gun AGs is nothing less than traitorous and un-American, siding with a foreign government over our country’s business interests simply to further their own political agenda. Gun owners living in states whose AG chose Mexico over America should start working now to remove those officials in the next election or even sooner depending on the process required to initiate a recall.
At the heart of the legal battle are accusations by Mexico that U.S. firearm companies are complicit in fueling gun violence across the border, claims that are patently laughable given the well-documented savagery of cartels with and without guns and widespread weakness and corruption at every level of the Mexican government. The issue has made it all the way to the Supreme Court in the case ongoing case Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc, et al. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, and numerous pro-gun groups have filed briefs with the court asking that the lawsuit be killed.
The Democrat AGs, however, are arguing just the opposite.
“When Congress enacted PLCAA, it deliberately struck a balance: it sought to ensure that law-abiding manufacturers and sellers of guns would not face liability for harms inflicted solely as a result of third parties’ unlawful conduct, but simultaneously preserved certain common-law and statutory remedies for harms brought about by gun industry members’ own misconduct,” the brief stated. “This Court should reject Petitioners’ invitation to interpret PLCAA’s predicate exception to confer upon them absolute immunity as inconsistent with settled principles regarding preemption, with traditional principles of tort law, and with PLCAA’s text and legislative history.”
I’m sure TTAG readers would love to know if their state attorney general played any part in this despicable action, so we’re publishing the complete list of AGs signing onto the brief.
Other traitorous AGs in addition to Bonta include:
- Delaware AG Kathy Jennings
- District of Columbia AG Brian Schwalb
- Hawaii AG Anne Lopez
- Illinois AG Kwame Raoul
- Maryland AG Anthony Brown
- Michigan AG Dana Nissel
- Minnesota AG Keith Ellison
- Nevada AG Aaron Ford
- New Jersey AG Matt Platkin
- New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez
- New York AG Letitia James
- Oregon AG Dan Rayfield
- Pennsylvania AG Dave Sunday
- Rhode Island AG Peter Neronha
- Vermont AG Charity Clark.
Voters in these states are urged to contact their state AG office and other state leaders to condemn this blatantly treasonous action against legal businesses and citizens of the United States.
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