Gun Store, Online Shop Agree To Settlement Over Oregon Killing

By Tom Knighton

Federal law generally protects gun stores and manufacturers from being sued if the products they lawfully sell are used in crimes. This protection makes sense considering how many people lash out at the maker of a gun or the store who sold it when neither did anything wrong. This is something that automakers and other manufacturers or retailers don’t have to deal with.

However, the law doesn’t protect companies from being sued for their own screwups. If they don’t follow the law, they don’t get the protection the law offers.

That’s probably why there’s been a settlement in an Oregon lawsuit following the killing of one woman.

Named as defendants in the suit is an Oregon pawn shop, World Pawn Exchange, and J&G Sales, a popular online firearms retailer, in relation to the 2013 murder of 57-year-old Kirsten Englund at a highway rest stop. As announced Wednesday by the gun control group who spearheaded the litigation in a series of Oregon courts, the firearm dealers will make “significant business reforms” and pay a settlement “in excess of $750,000.”

In 2013, Jeffrey Boyce, 30, of North Bend, Oregon, shot and killed Kirsten Englund and then drove to California in …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms