Quartermasters of the cartels - US gun manufacturers. 'There's No Second Amendment Right to Sell Guns to the Cartels'
Rolling Stone has recently spoken to a lawyer, Jonathan Lowy, the founder of a legal group called Global Action on Gun Violence. Lowy is helping to fight the "iron river" of US-made guns ending up in the hands of the cartels.
ROLLING STONE: To what extent did the Second Amendment come up? We covered when Ted Cruz wrote an amicus brief in this case, effectively arguing that a profitable gun industry is necessary to safeguard the Second Amendment — so you can’t go after gun industry profits because, by golly, that would eviscerate access to arms.
LOWY: My view is the cartels do not have Second Amendment rights. There is no Second Amendment right to sell guns to the cartels, even through intermediaries. There’s no Second Amendment right to illegally sell guns. Ninety percent or more of gun dealers obey the law and act in a responsible way. The problem is that the gun industry is using the worst-of-the-worst gun dealers.
This case is about the Mexican criminal market. The gun industry can survive without the illegal Mexican cartel market for firearms. Maybe their revenues would go down a little bit. But they’re not placed in jeopardy. That’s sort of an absurd argument.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/supreme-court-mexico-litigation-gunmakers-arm-cartels-1235296736/
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