Mexico says it has filed an appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers. The country sees the suit as a way to stop arms trafficking into Mexico.
Last September, a federal judge dismissed Mexico’s lawsuitagainst gun manufacturers, which alleged that the companies’ marketing and distribution practices facilitate the illegal flow of weapons across the border.
Now, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry says it has filed an appeal in the case and hopes to be given a chance to show a correlation between alleged negligence by U.S. gun-makers and violent crime by drug cartels in Mexico.
The case is one of two lawsuits that Mexico has filed in U.S. courts. The second was filed last October against five Arizona gun shops for allegedly participating “systematically in the trafficking” of weapons to Mexico.
