• SUIT: With the help of the Mexican Government, ten Mexican citizens are suing US retailer Walmart over the August shooting in one of its stores in El Paso, Texas that left 22 people dead -including 9 Mexican citizens- for not taking enough measures to protect is customers.
• SECURITY: “The purpose of these actions presented in El Paso County is to hold the company responsible for not taking reasonable and necessary measures to protect its customers from the attack at the Cielo Vista branch in El Paso, Texas”, the Mexican Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
• REACTION: One month after the El Paso shooting, Walmart’s CEO Doug McMillon announced a new policy asking its customers not to “openly carry firearms” into its stores and stopped selling certain kind of ammunition. In 2015, Walmart stopped selling assault-style weapons.
• GUNS: Originally, Mexico floated the idea of suing the gun shop and the manufacturers linked to the AK-47 used by the shooter. Texas media reported in August that the suspect confessed he had bought the assault weapon online from Romania along with ammunition from Russia.
