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National Shooting Sports Foundation: City of Boston Begs Court for
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National Shooting Sports Foundation: City of Boston Begs Court for More Time to Try to Prove Wrongdoing by Gun Makers To: National Desk Contact: Lawrence G. Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, (Friday, Feb. 22) 203-526-6773; (all other times) 203-426-1320 NEWTOWN, Conn., Feb. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following was released today by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF): In its suit to hold gun makers responsible for public health costs of gun violence, the city of Boston and the Boston Public Health Commission told Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Nonnie Burns today that they need more time to come up with evidence of wrongdoing by the defendant gun companies. On Jan. 20, 2002, Judge Burnes gave the city until this week to "present facts to prove that actions of the (gun makers) caused, contributed to or, at least, were connected to the harm claimed by the city" and admonished the city that "it is not enough for the (city) simply to allege that the (gun makers) take, or fail to take, actions which the (city) says cause the harm suffered by the city...." The city's request for yet more time comes after 18 months of pre-trial discovery and over a month after the deadline for the city to produce its evidence of wrongdoing by the manufacturers and the deadline for the city to prove it actually suffered the $100 million dollars in damages claimed in its lawsuit. In contrast to its plea today for more time to prove its case, city lawyers were quoted in a Jan. 19, 2002, Boston Globe article saying they had "combed through thousands of (internal industry) documents" which they alleged "detail the marketing of guns and the relationship between gun makers and dealers, painting a picture of a negligent and callous industry." "Over the past 18 months the city has reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of industry records and taken sworn statements from corporate executives all in an effort to find evidence of wrongdoing by these manufacturers and at the end of the day they simply have no evidence to support their outrageous allegations that these manufacturers are responsible for the criminal and accidental misuse of firearms in the city. The court can give the city all time it wants to take discovery but the city will never find evidence of industry negligence and callousness because its simply isn't true," said Lawrence G. Keane, vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry's leading trade association. "We would hope the court will not delay this case any further. We look forward to vindicating our industry in court." This release is also available in the Press Room section of the NSSF Web site: http://NSSF.org. http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/temp/0222-137.html