Mexico is not dropping its lawsuit against five Arizona gun dealers despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling tossing a similar case against gun manufacturers.

Steve Shadowen, an attorney who represents Mexico, told Capitol Media Services the facts in that country’s claim against Smith & Wesson and others are sufficiently different than those in the lawsuit filed here in 2022.

On one hand, he said, Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the unanimous court, acknowledge there are “unlawful sales of firearms to Mexican traffickers.”

But Shadowen said Kagan concluded the manufacturers are too far removed from the actual gun dealers that sell to the cartels to make them legally liable.

The Arizona lawsuit, by contrast, actually cites specific sales made by each specific weapons dealer that the Mexican

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