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The Mex­i­can gov­ern­ment has failed in its at­tempt to pur­sue a nov­el US$10 bil­lion against a group of ma­jor Unit­ed States gun man­u­fac­tur­ers, which was sup­port­ed by sev­er­al Cari­com coun­tries in­clud­ing T&T.

De­liv­er­ing sev­er­al de­ci­sions, yes­ter­day, the US Supreme Court ruled that Mex­i­co could not pur­sue the law­suit claim­ing that the com­pa­nies were com­plic­it in the il­lic­it arms trade to drug car­tels and crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Jus­tice Ele­na Ka­gan, who de­liv­ered the nine-mem­ber pan­el’s views on the case, stat­ed that the sev­en man­u­fac­tur­ers in­clud­ing Smith and Wes­son, Glock, Ruger and Beretta were pro­tect­ed by the pro­vi­sions of the Pro­tec­tion of Law­ful Com­merce in Arms Act (PLCAA).