Thread: Mexico wants to sue U.S. gun makers

April 21, 2011 4:19 PM

Mexico wants to sue U.S. gun makers

Posted by CBS News Investigates


CBS News has learned that the Mexican Government has retained an American law firm to explore filing civil charges against U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors over the flood of guns crossing the border into Mexico.

Sources say Mexico's frustration with U.S. efforts to stop the flow of weapons has pushed them into this novel approach. The law firm is looking at charges that may include civil RICO. The contract was signed on November 2, 2010 by a representative of Mexico's Attorney General, at their Washington embassy.

On November 5, 2010 President Felipe Calderon expressed his frustration to CBS News correspondent Peter Greenberg: "We seized more than 90,000 weapons...I am talking like 50,000 assault weapons, AR -5 machine guns, more than 8,000 grenades and almost 10 million bullets. Amazing figures and according to all those cases, the ones we are able to track, most of these are American weapons."

According to sources, investigators will obtain makes and serial numbers of guns seized by Mexican authorities and trace them to their U.S. distributors and manufacturers.

Christopher Renzulli of New York, who has represented U.S. gun makers for fifteen years, says he believes this would be a difficult case for the Mexican government to win. "The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act would bar that kind of lawsuit from the start. The law, passed in 2005 has resulted in several lawsuits against gun makers being dismissed.

But sources familiar with the case say the law firm retained by Mexico - New York based Reid Collins & Tsai - believes the federal law won't stand in the way of their case.

According to the Mexican government database, there were 15,273 drug-related killings in 2010.Overall, a total of 34,612 people have died in drug-related killings in the four years since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared a stepped-up offensive against drug cartels.

Richard Feldman, President of the Independent Firearms Association and former gun industry association executive said: "Maybe we should be suing the Mexican government for their failure to prevent drugs from coming into our country."

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-2 ... 91695.html

Lawsuits need to fly; but at the ATF Agents / DHS / DOJ and the F'n White House

The Tax Payer should not foot this bill or pay any fines

only the Rogue Individuals need to be held Financially accountable

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Lawsuits need to fly; but at the ATF Agents / DHS / DOJ and the F'n White House

The Tax Payer should not foot this bill or pay any fines

only the Rogue Individuals need to be held Financially accountable

Amen brother, AMEN! Unfortunately this is exactly what Obozo wanted from the start I'm afraid.

Originally Posted by nomas

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Lawsuits need to fly; but at the ATF Agents / DHS / DOJ and the F'n White House

The Tax Payer should not foot this bill or pay any fines

only the Rogue Individuals need to be held Financially accountable

Amen brother, AMEN! Unfortunately this is exactly what Obozo wanted from the start I'm afraid.

Im sure congress and the "president' will stand up and applaude mexico for this!

Can we sue mexico for encouraging 20 million of their dregs to enter our country in violation of our immigration laws, whereby they send billions of dollars in remittances back to mexico each year through illegally obtained work?

Sounds like a criminal conspiracy to me!

WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!

SO, lets take this to a different step, replace all the words of Guns with CARS!

April 21, 2011 4:19 PM

Mexico wants to sue U.S. car makers

Posted by CBS-b News Investigates


CBS-b News has learned that the Mexican Government has retained an American law firm to explore filing civil charges against U.S. car manufacturers and distributors over the flood of cars crossing the border into Mexico.

Sources say Mexico's frustration with U.S. efforts to stop the flow of cars has pushed them into this novel approach. The law firm is looking at charges that may include civil RICO. The contract was signed on November 2, 2010 by a representative of Mexico's Attorney General, at their Washington embassy.

On November 5, 2010 President Felipe Calderon expressed his frustration to CBS News correspondent Peter Greenberg: "We seized more than 90,000 cars...I am talking like 50,000 Green cars, Green Eco cars, more than 8,000 windmills and almost 10 million rolls of toilet paper. Amazing figures and according to all those cases, the ones we are able to track, most of these are American cars."

According to sources, investigators will obtain makes and serial numbers of cars seized by Mexican authorities and trace them to their U.S. distributors and manufacturers.

Christopher Renzeulli of New York, who has represented U.S. car makers for fifteen years, says he believes this would be a difficult case for the Mexican government to win. "The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Car Act would bar that kind of lawsuit from the start. The law, passed in 2005 has resulted in several lawsuits against car makers being dismissed.

But sources familiar with the case say the law firm retained by Mexico - New York based Reid Collins & Tsali - believes the federal law won't stand in the way of their case.

According to the Mexican government database, there were 15,273 deaths related to Green cars in 2010.Overall, a total of 34,612 people have died in Green drunken driving cases in the four years since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared a stepped-up offensive against car manufactures.

Richard Feldman, President of the Independent Firecar Association and former car industry association executive said: "Maybe we should be suing the Mexican government for their failure to prevent foreign green cars from coming into our country."

See how much nonsense this makes! Same difference....

This is not good. Considering Mexico was allowed to join the lawsuit against Arizona, it could fly. If it does, then it's another back door way for BO to attempt to disarm America.

Beware!!!!

Mexico Disregards U.S. Law

Friday, April 22, 2011


In another chapter in the ongoing attempt to blame the American gun community for Mexico’s internal strife, CBS News reports that the Mexican government has retained the New York City-based law firm of Reid Collins & Tsai to examine its options for suing U.S. gun manufacturers and distributors. This report describes Mexico’s actions as a “novel approach,â€

Nobody is twisting these Mexican drug dealers arms when they go and buy the guns. They need to get their people in check, if they don't get guns from the US they'll get em some where else!

Originally Posted by thedramaofmylife

Nobody is twisting these Mexican drug dealers arms when they go and buy the guns. They need to get their people in check, if they don't get guns from the US they'll get em some where else!

I believe that it's already been reported that many of these guns didn't come from the U.S. but from other South American countries who buy firearms legitimately from the U.S. and then ship them to Mexico. This is all just a big political scam being played out by Mexico and their enablers in Washington.