Gun Executive Says Brady Center Misled Media Against Firearms Mon Status of Lawsuits

Josey1

Gun Executive Says Brady Center Misled Media on Status of Lawsuits Against Firearms Manufacturers To: National Desk Contact: Lawrence G. Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, 203-426-1320 Web: http://www.nssf.org NEWTOWN, Conn., Oct. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Dennis Henigan, director of the Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence's Legal Action Project, seriously misled media and the public with his comments following yesterday's U.S. Supreme Court decision declining to revive a lawsuit by the City of New Orleans against firearms manufacturers, according to Robert T. Delfay, president and chief executive officer of the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Commenting on the status of nearly 30 lawsuits filed against the firearms industry, Henigan stated, "You have cases going both ways. It's pretty much split down the middle." But Delfay took sharp exception to Henigan's assessment. "These comments by Mr. Henigan totally misrepresent the true status of the municipal litigation against the firearms industry," Delfay said. "There have been 18 suits decided so far and 17 have been fully or partially dismissed in favor of firearms manufacturers. That's not pretty much split down the middle. "Further, what Mr. Henigan failed to tell reporters was that every appellate decision so far rendered in these cases, including decisions by the supreme courts of Louisiana and Connecticut and now the United States Supreme Court, has ruled in favor of the firearms industry. In addition, the highest courts in New York and California both recently ruled in favor of firearms manufacturers in private lawsuits that sought to hold firearms manufacturers responsible for criminal violence committed with firearms. "By far, the consensus by judges reviewing these cases is that there is no basis in law to hold the manufacturer of a legally sold, non-defective product responsible for the criminal misuse of that product. The attempt by nearly 30 municipalities to do so is totally political and distasteful, as is Mr. Henigan's misrepresentation of the status of these lawsuits," Delfay said. "We can understand Mr. Henigan's extreme disappointment at the resounding rejection of his politically motivated and harassing lawsuits against the firearms industry, but that disappointment is no excuse for his misleading statements regarding the status of these lawsuits. Mr. Henigan owes an apology to the nation's news media as well as to those citizens whose tax dollars have been wasted in the pursuit of this frivolous and ill-conceived litigation," Delfay concluded. -http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1010-146.html--

mudge

GEEEEZ......The "gun-grabbers" lying to the media? What a concept. Mudge

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I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!