BOISE – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a coalition of 27 states in defending American firearms manufacturers against attempts to hold the companies liable for gun violence in Mexico. Labrador says if a lower court’s ruling is allowed to stand, Americans’ Second Amendment rights could be threatened.
In their petition, the attorneys general ask the U.S. Supreme Court to correct a lower court’s ruling against Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. to keep other nations, like Mexico, from “using American courts to limit the rights of American citizens.”
“This case is a part of the continued attack on the American firearms industry,” said Labrador. “I will never sit back and let a foreign nation dictate the freedoms of American citizens, especially when Mexico’s own hypocritical inaction about immigration, drug cartels, and the border has created such damage here on U.S. soil.”