Commentary
Aren’t American officials supposed to side with Americans? One would think so. Not California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the attorneys general from 16 other states and Washington, D.C. They filed an amicus brief in an appeal to a case brought by the country of Mexico against 10 U.S. gun manufacturers. The case is Estados Unidos Mexicanos v. Smith & Wesson Brands Inc., et al. It now is being heard in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, based in Boston, Mass.
The lawsuit originally was filed in February 2022. I wrote about it in the Epoch Times at the time. That lawsuit was rejected last September by the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts. The reason was obvious, as I pointed out: This is a federal matter. That’s why we have a U.S. State Department. The U.S. Constitution reads, in Article I, Section 10, Clause 1:…