2026

Summary: The EWTN News portal reports that several congregations of religious sisters have lost a derivative lawsuit against Smith & Wesson, in which they alleged the gun manufacturer’s marketing of AR-15 rifles “facilitated” mass shootings and threatened the company’s long-term viability. The U.S. District Court dismissed the case for lack of standing and failure to post a required security bond. This legal action, undertaken by sisters belonging to post-conciliar religious institutes, represents a profound abandonment of the Catholic Church’s supernatural mission, reducing the Church’s prophetic voice to a mere shareholder activism concerned with temporal effects while remaining utterly silent on the sin, sacrilege, and loss of faith that are the true root causes of societal violence. The lawsuit is a symptomatic fruit of the conciliar revolution’s prioritization of secular “social justice” over the doctrine of the regno Christi—the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations and every facet of life.