The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by U.S. gun maker Smith & Wesson SWBI.O and firearms wholesaler Interstate Arms to throw out Mexico’s lawsuit accusing them of aiding the illegal trafficking of firearms to Mexican drug cartels.
The justices took up an appeal by the two companies of a lower court’s refusal to dismiss Mexico’s suit, which was filed in federal court in Boston in 2021, under a 2005 U.S. law that broadly shields gun companies from l