Mexico has filed a lawsuit against 11 gun manufacturers over firearms that flow from the US across the border and into criminal hands in Mexico, according to court documents obtained by CNN
"This flood is not a natural phenomenon or an inevitable consequence of the gun business or of U.S. gun laws. It is the foreseeable result of the Defendants' deliberate actions and business practices," the complaint reads. Major brands Smith & Wesson, Colt and Glock are among the nearly dozen defendants named in the suit. Read MoreThe companies did not respond immediately to CNN's request for comment.
From 1999 to 2004, homicides in Mexico were declining but then increased dramatically beginning in 2004,"exactly contemporaneously with Defendants' increased production, distribution, and marketing of their military-grade weapon," the suit reads.
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