American arms companies on trial? Supreme Court hears lawsuit against Mexican government – ​​Def-Con News

In the twenty-plus years that some pretty powerful organizations have been using Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA), one rock-solid rule for root cause analysis has always applied: The instrument is never the cause.

Blaming the sword on the hand that wields it is a foolish endeavor.

This from redstate.com.

CAPA is a defined method for solving problems. The steps in the process:

– identifying the problem,

– defining the scope of the problem,

– carrying out a cause analysis,

– developing corrections,

– corrective actions and preventive actions, and

– then validate that the actions resolved the root cause.

But in some cases, companies have failed to recognize the actual problem and have therefore improperly conducted root cause analysis—and in the political world, gun control advocates have done the same.

That includes Mexico’s government, which has filed a lawsuit blaming U.S. arms companies for Mexico’s organized crime problems. And strangely enough, the United States Supreme Court is reviewing Mexico’s lawsuit, and hopefully it will it will be deep-six.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to a bid by U.S. gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson (SWBI.O) and firearms wholesaler Interstate Arms to dismiss Mexico’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding the illegal firearms trade to Mexican drug cartels.

The justices appealed by the two companies to a lower court’s refusal to dismiss the Mexican lawsuit, filed in 2021 in federal court in Boston, under a 2005 U.S. law that broadly protects gun companies against liability for crimes committed with their products.

The Supreme Court will hear the case during the nine-month term, which begins Monday.

The 2005 American law cited here is 15 USC 105, Lawful Trafficking in Arms Protection Act, which has as its main purpose:

Prohibiting lawsuits against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms or ammunition products, and their professional associations, for damages caused solely by the criminal or unlawful misuse of firearms or ammunition products by others while the product was functioning as designed and intended.

The law was a response to several lawsuits against American gun manufacturers over the criminal misuse of their legal products, which is as senseless as suing General Motors for people’s deaths caused by drunk drivers.

It is not a stretch to note that the Mexican government is using this as a distraction from its obvious inability to do so maintains order in their own country.

According to a 2021 report from the university, up to two-thirds of intentional killings in Mexico in recent years showed signs of organized crime, including the use of powerful weapons, multiple victims, evidence of torture and messages linked to specific criminal groups. of San Diego.

Mexico is unfortunately a failed state. While the U.S. Supreme Court is right to take up the challenge to this case and hopefully dismiss it, Mexico’s problems are not so easily addressed. This is a country with gun control laws that would send shivers down the legs of America’s most ardent gun grabbers, and yet the number of crimes committed with firearms has spiraled out of control; their country is dominated by criminal cartels, and even if you could wave a magic wand and dry up every American firearm in Mexico, it would be a matter of days before the cartels started producing their own firearms, assuming they don’t do it already. . Even modern firearms are not very complicated pieces of equipment, and any machine shop could easily produce large numbers of something like a small submachine gun.

Mexico, like American gun grabbers, is cynically trying to distract from its failures by blaming the sword on the hand that wields it. This lawsuit will likely fail and Mexico’s problems will still be unresolved.