
Mexico threatens US gunmakers with fresh legal action
Mexico's president on Friday warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action and be deemed accomplices if Washington designates Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.

Mexico's president on Friday warned US gunmakers they could face fresh legal action and be deemed accomplices if Washington designates Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.
"If they declare these criminal groups as terrorists, then we'll have to expand our US lawsuit," President Claudia Sheinbaum said at a daily press conference.
A new charge could include alleged complicity of gunmakers with terror groups, she said.
"The lawyers are looking at it, but they could be accomplices," Sheinbaum warned.
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She said the US Justice Department itself has recognized that "74 percent of the weapons" used by criminal groups in Mexico come from north of the border.
On Thursday, the New York Times reported that the US State Department plans to classify criminal groups from Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Venezuela as "terrorist organizations."