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Bryco Arms-B.L. Jennings being SUED in NY
Josey1
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MOTHER OF WENDY'S SLAY VICTIM SUES GUNMAKER
By JESSIE GRAHAM
May 24, 2002 -- The mother of a Queens woman killed in the Wendy's massacre has filed a federal lawsuit against the manufacturers and sellers of the gun that killed her daughter - as relatives of the victims mark the two-year anniversary of the shootings today.
The negligence complaint, filed on behalf of Joan Truman Smith in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday, holds Bryco Arms-B.L. Jennings and its distributors responsible for the death of Anita Smith, who was killed along with her four co-workers in the May 24, 2000, slaughter.
The Bryco-Jennings .380 used by accused killer John Taylor and confessed accomplice Craig Godineaux was a "public danger and public nuisance" because the manufacturer intentionally sold it as a "crime gun" into an underground and illegal market of weapons sellers, the complaint alleges.
The complaint - which traces the twisted trail of Taylor's gun from a California plant to the streets of Queens via Nevada and Ohio - charges that the companies engaged in negligent marketing and distribution by flooding the market with cheap guns they knew would end up in the hands of New York criminals.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/43057.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By JESSIE GRAHAM
May 24, 2002 -- The mother of a Queens woman killed in the Wendy's massacre has filed a federal lawsuit against the manufacturers and sellers of the gun that killed her daughter - as relatives of the victims mark the two-year anniversary of the shootings today.
The negligence complaint, filed on behalf of Joan Truman Smith in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday, holds Bryco Arms-B.L. Jennings and its distributors responsible for the death of Anita Smith, who was killed along with her four co-workers in the May 24, 2000, slaughter.
The Bryco-Jennings .380 used by accused killer John Taylor and confessed accomplice Craig Godineaux was a "public danger and public nuisance" because the manufacturer intentionally sold it as a "crime gun" into an underground and illegal market of weapons sellers, the complaint alleges.
The complaint - which traces the twisted trail of Taylor's gun from a California plant to the streets of Queens via Nevada and Ohio - charges that the companies engaged in negligent marketing and distribution by flooding the market with cheap guns they knew would end up in the hands of New York criminals.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/43057.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878