Retailers Continue To Be Sued Over Misused Firearms

By Tom Knighton

Gun control activists have long stood out there and claimed that suing those who make and sell firearms is a viable tactic, that it’s somehow just to blame them for what someone else has done. It was so bad that Congress took action, passing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act to curtail that brand of nonsense.

The law did allow for exceptions, however. As it should. I mean, if a gun explodes because of faulty manufacturing, you should be entitled to sue.

But now anti-gunners are trying to use those exceptions to navigate around the protections whenever they can.

In April 2014, a shotgun purchased by a straw buyer was used in a shooting rampage that killed three people at the Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom retirement community in Overland Park, Kansas.

The shooter currently sits on death row, and the straw buyer is now a felon. The purchase also put the spotlight on Walmart, which sold the shotgun, in the form of two lawsuits filed by the victims’ families.

Experts say those lawsuits — and a growing cohort of similar cases across the country — are opening a new front against the gun industry by making one …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms