NRA is not your friend

[soryang]

6. re: I don't care so much...

We should care about preserving the right to sue not only for those who are injured or killed, but because litigation is a useful supplement to regulation. Especially for guns, given that regulation is anemic in the first place. Often, defendants will change their behavior—self-regulate, in other words—rather than risk liability. Faced with the public nuisance suits, Smith & Wesson agreed to limit retail customers to no more than one gun within a two-week period and threatened dealers with cancellation of their contracts if "a disproportionate number" of crimes were committed with guns they sold. S&W also began installing safely locks on its weapons.

From Sue the Gun Makers, and the Sellers, Too

Congress should repeal the bad law that shields them from liability.

By John Culhane

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2012/12/congress_should_repeal_the_law_that_protects_the_gun_industry_from_lawsuits.html

John Culhane is a professor of law at Delaware Law School and a co-director of the Family Health Law & Policy Institute.