Posted March 29, 2017 6:19 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

sandy hook ar-15

An absurd lawsuit filed by a minority of the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has twice been shut down decisively by courts for running directly afoul of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which protects the firearms industry against frivolous lawsuits.

That isn’t stopping the vile Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence from attempting to resurrect the case a third time, in hopes of setting a legal precedent to ban virtually very firearm ever made.

Gun control advocates are asking the Connecticut Supreme Court for permission to argue against a judge’s decision last year to dismiss a wrongful-death lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 Newtown school shooting, saying the ruling would set a bad precedent.

State Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ruled in October that the lawsuit filed by some of the Newtown victims’ families against Remington Arms wasn’t allowed because of a federal law that shields gun makers from liability, in most cases, when their products are used in crimes. Remington, based in Madison, North Carolina, made the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle used to kill 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

A survivor of the attack …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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