![]() to protect gun manufacturers, said Yamin. Mexico’s legal action is novel and innovative in its efforts to pierce the veil of impunity that has been constructed in the U.S. Alejandro Celorio Alcántara, legal adviser of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs 15 awards the families $73 million and, more importantly, requires the gun manufacturer to release internal company documents about their marketing strategies. The settlement with Remington announced Feb. In total the gunman, armed with an AR-15-style rifle, took the lives of 20 children and six adults in the attack.īoth lawsuits focus on the firms’ marketing strategies that target individuals who pose a higher threat of gun violence, said Yamin. The lawsuit accuses gunmakers of marketing strategies and business practices to “design, market, distribute, and sell guns in ways they know routinely arm the drug cartels in Mexico.”Īlicia Ely Yamin, Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights at the Petrie-Flom Center, drew a parallel between the lawsuit by the Mexican government and the settlement between Remington and the families of nine people killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Drug cartels, in particular, buy those weapons in the U.S., mostly in Texas or Arizona, and smuggle them across the border. Between 70 to 90 percent of guns recovered at crime scenes in Mexico can be traced back to the U.S. Mexico has restrictive firearms laws, with one gun store in the entire nation and only about 50 permits issued per year. Mexican officials have said that a significant part of the epidemic of violence and crime that has plagued their nation in recent decades is driven by the illicit traffic of weapons from the U.S. The panel was sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. to Stop Violence in Mexico” about the public health crises created by gun violence on both sides of the border and the legal arguments behind the action. ![]() It is the first time that a foreign government has sued American gunmakers.Ĭelorio Alcántara spoke on Thursday at the online panel “Exporting Mayhem: Suing Gun Manufacturers in the U.S. Like if this were a toxic river, in addition to cleaning the river, we need to go to the source and stop the toxic waste from being dumped at the river,” said Celorio Alcántara, referring to the landmark lawsuit the Mexican government filed against 10 U.S. “In addition to prosecuting criminals and seizing guns that are illegally in Mexico, we decided to go to the source of the problem. Every year, half a million weapons enter Mexico illegally from the U.S., and many of them are military-style weapons that end up in the hands of drug cartels and other violent criminals, said Alejandro Celorio Alcántara, legal adviser of the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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