Twenty GOP AGs are defending American gun manufacturers against a lawsuit from Mexico claiming the companies should be liable for gun violence in the country.
"Firearms manufacturers are under attack from the Mexican government and anti-gun groups trying to bankrupt them for crimes they did not commit," Knudsen said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
"On the facts, American gun manufacturers are not responsible for gun violence in Mexico," the AGs stated in a brief filed Thursday."Rather, policy choices by the Mexican government, policy failures in the United States, and independent criminal actions by third parties are alone responsible for gun violence in Mexico.
"The available evidence suggests that gun violence in Mexico increased, not because of the expiration of the U.S. assault-weapons ban, but instead because of the Mexican government’s crackdown on the cartels."Contrary to Mexico’s claims that American guns are ‘among the deadliest and most often recovered at crime scenes in Mexico,’ only a minority of guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico can be traced back to the United States.
It said the age of the few American retail guns that do end up in cartel hands suggests that those weapons had been stolen or sold on the black market years after their legal sale in the U.S. and had not been intentionally trafficked to Mexico through straw purchases.
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