manufacturers — including Smith & Wesson — of failing to prevent the illegal trafficking of firearms to cartels and criminal organizations. In one of several rulings issued on Thursday, the court found that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act shields gun manufacturers from such legal actions. The decision was unanimous. Writing on behalf of the nine-member bench, Justice Elena Kagan stated that even a manufacturer’s “indifference” to firearm trafficking does not equate to actively aiding a criminal enterprise. “Mexico’s complaint does not plausibly allege that the defendant manufacturers aided and abetted gun dealers’ unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers,” Kagan wrote. “We have little doubt that, as the complaint asserts, some such sales do take place — and that the manufacturers are aware of them. But still, Mexico has not sufficiently alleged what is required: that the manufacturers actually ‘participated in’ those sales.” (Al jazeera)