Posted March 19, 2016 1:45 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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I have a great deal of empathy for the families who had loved ones stolen from them by an evil, murderous young man at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. That empathy doesn’t mean I have to tolerate it when they boldly and intentionally lie.

In the Washington Post, Mark and Jackie Barden, parents of seven-year-old victim Daniel Barden, attempt to make an argument that the most common rifle sold in the United States year after year should be banned.

This case is about a particular weapon, Remington’s Bushmaster AR-15, and its sale to a particular market: civilians. It is not about handguns or hunting rifles, and the success of our lawsuit would not mean the end of firearm manufacturing in this country, as Sanders warned. This case is about the AR-15 because the AR-15 is not an ordinary weapon; it was designed and manufactured for the military to increase casualties in combat. The AR-15 is to guns what a tank is to cars: uniquely deadly and suitable for specialized use only.

We have never suggested that Remington should be held liable simply for manufacturing the AR-15. In fact, we believe that Remington and other manufacturers’ production of the AR-15 is …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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