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Are you liable if

n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
edited February 2011 in General Discussion
someone gets hold of a loaded gun in your home and intensionally or accidentally injures someone?

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  • gjshawgjshaw Member Posts: 14,754 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    yes

    I will add. If they are an invitee into your house.
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  • keystone1974keystone1974 Member Posts: 242 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow! I didn't know that... Mmmm
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  • CyclonusCyclonus Member Posts: 2,825
    edited November -1
    Your homeowners insurance usually covers such a thing however you can better believe youll be getting sued regardless. Hence why your better off just killing an intruder rather than injuring him.
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    You are liable for anything and everything a lawyer can convince a jury to hold you liable for.
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    You are liable for anything and everything a lawyer can convince a jury to hold you liable for.


    BINGO
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  • CHEVELLE427CHEVELLE427 Member Posts: 6,750
    edited November -1
    IF it was a child YES here you go to jail
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,408 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    You are liable for anything and everything a lawyer can convince a jury to hold you liable for.



    +1
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  • plinkedplinked Member Posts: 401 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Do you guys remember when the NRA was sued because someone broke into their building and stole a handgun out of the office of a gun editor, the gun a later used in a holdup where someone was killed, the jury found NRA at fault and awarded the victims family 7 million. The jury ignored the fact that it took the thif over 3 hours to break into the office and that the gun was locked in the editors desk draw, seems the lawyer had them convinced that none of this would have ever happened if the gun had been put back into the office gun safe (which NRA admitted was standard procedure), I know NRA appealed it but it but never heard the final outcome
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,164 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ChrisInTempe
    You are liable for anything and everything a lawyer can convince a jury to hold you liable for.
    Exactly.
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  • KEVD18KEVD18 Member Posts: 15,037
    edited November -1
    in mass, you are required to do everything in your power to secure your firearms and ammunition from unauthorized use. the da will use the fact that an unauthorized person was able to access one of your guns as defacto proof that you fil in that requirement and the jury will buy it.
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  • RtWngExtrmstRtWngExtrmst Member Posts: 7,456
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by KEVD18
    in mass, you are required to do everything in your power to secure your firearms and ammunition from unauthorized use. the da will use the fact that an unauthorized person was able to access one of your guns as defacto proof that you fil in that requirement and the jury will buy it.

    In commie states like MA, you're screwed. Which is OK, because if you choose to live in a state that would elect Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank or John Kerry, you should be screwed. In normal states, it depends if you were actually negligent.
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