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Countries Join Forces With Mexico to Take on U.S. Gun Manufacturers

The Bahamas is the latest among a number of other nations to join the fight against the United States and its gun problems.

The Bahamas and a handful of other smaller nations are joining Mexico in taking on U.S. gun manufacturers, part of a bid to stop violent crimes committed in foreign nations by people using weapons manufactured and illegally smuggled from the United States. Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis confirmed Antigua & Barbuda, St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Trinidad & Tobago, as well as the Latin American and Caribbean Network for Human Security, also joined a brief in support of a $10 billion suit filed by Mexico in the United States Court of Appeal in the First Circuit “to hold US gun manufacturers accountable.” The brief states: “Unlawful trafficking of American firearms must be curtailed at its source: the U.S. gun industry.” Davis added: “The gun manufacturers and distributers from a single nation must not be permitted to hold hostage the law-abiding citizens of an entire region of the world.”

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