By Sarah Morland

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has filed an attraction in a civil lawsuit in opposition to U.S.-based gun producers, it stated on Wednesday, because it seems to be to crack down on the trafficking of weapons to highly effective drug cartels.

A U.S. choose in September dismissed the $10 billion lawsuit looking for to carry U.S. gun makers chargeable for facilitating the trafficking of lethal weapons throughout the border.

“A positive choice within the courtroom of appeals will permit the federal government to show its case on the deserves – that the gun producers’ advertising and distribution practices quantity to actively facilitating the trafficking of their weapons into Mexico,” the federal government stated in a press release.

“There’s a correlation between the negligent practices of corporations and the arms trafficking that results in violence in Mexico, in addition to different crimes comparable to human trafficking and drug trafficking,” it added.

The difficulty of gun violence in Mexico has drawn new scrutiny on either side of the border in current days following the cartel-linked kidnapping of 4 Individuals within the northern state of Tamaulipas, throughout which two of them and a Mexican bystander had been killed.

The federal government’s attraction is concentrating on Smith and Wesson Manufacturers Inc and Sturm, Ruger and Co, in addition to Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc, Beretta USA Corp, Colt’s Manufacturing Co, Century Worldwide Arms Inc, Witmer Public Security Group Inc and pistol-maker Glock Inc.

Reuters contacted all the corporations however none instantly responded to a request for remark.

Mexico just isn’t the one nation within the area to be tormented by gun violence.

Caribbean leaders at a summit final month mentioned tighter measures to cease U.S.-made weapons from being trafficked to Haiti the place gangs are fueling a humanitarian disaster.