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Gun law to turn on makers...
Josey1
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Gun law to turn on makers
By Oliver Poole in Los Angeles
(Filed: 16/08/2002)
California has taken a step towards allowing shooting victims to sue gun makers, setting up a battle with America's powerful firearms lobby and opening the door to numerous lawsuits.
The state Senate voted to overturn a 1984 law that shields gunmakers from liability. The measure now goes to the state Assembly, where it is also expected to be passed, and then to the governor, Gray Davis.
The bill was tabled after a lawsuit failed against the Navegar gun company, which advertised that its weapons masked fingerprints and were "as tough as your toughest customer". A man killed eight people when he went on a rampage with a Navegar gun.
Supporters of the legislation hope that Mr Davis will sign it, in part because he was one of only a handful of assemblymen to vote against the 1984 law.
The gun lobby has already started efforts to defeat the measure. Chuck Michel, of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, said it was designed to "open the floodgates of frivolous litigation against the gun industry so they can litigate it to death."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/16/wgun16.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/08/16/ixworld.html
"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 Oliver Poole in Los Angeles
(Filed: 16/08/2002)
California has taken a step towards allowing shooting victims to sue gun makers, setting up a battle with America's powerful firearms lobby and opening the door to numerous lawsuits.
The state Senate voted to overturn a 1984 law that shields gunmakers from liability. The measure now goes to the state Assembly, where it is also expected to be passed, and then to the governor, Gray Davis.
The bill was tabled after a lawsuit failed against the Navegar gun company, which advertised that its weapons masked fingerprints and were "as tough as your toughest customer". A man killed eight people when he went on a rampage with a Navegar gun.
Supporters of the legislation hope that Mr Davis will sign it, in part because he was one of only a handful of assemblymen to vote against the 1984 law.
The gun lobby has already started efforts to defeat the measure. Chuck Michel, of the California Rifle and Pistol Association, said it was designed to "open the floodgates of frivolous litigation against the gun industry so they can litigate it to death."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/16/wgun16.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/08/16/ixworld.html
"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