Smith & Wesson (SWBI), a gun maker, disclosed it and other firearms manufacturers are being sued in a Massachusetts court by the Mexican government over their alleged roles in arming drug cartels. In its latest 10-Q, Smith & Wesson reports Mexico is:

“...claiming defendants design, market, distribute, and sell firearms in ways they know routinely arm the drug cartels in Mexico.”

In the suit, Mexico accuses Smith & Wesson of intentionally designing guns so they may easily be turned into “military-style assault weapons”:

“Defendants design these guns to be easily modified to fire automatically and to be readily transferable on the criminal market in Mexico.”