Part of Chicago gun lawsuit thrown out!

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Judge: Gun Makers Not Responsible for Use
UPI
Thursday, May 11, 2000

CHICAGO - A Chicago judge today dismissed part of a lawsuit, saying gun makers have "no duty to control the distribution of their products."
The decision came in a suit filed on behalf of the families of a Chicago police officers and two others who were shot to death.

Circuit Judge Jennifer Duncan-Brice, in an 11-page opinion, dismissed the part of the lawsuit that claimed gun makers should be held liable for what is done with their products. Duncan-Brice wrote gun maker Smith & Wesson and others "owed no duty to control the distribution of their products to the general public."

The families of slain Chicago police officer Michael Ceriale, 26, who was killed during a drug surveillance, Andrew Young and Salada Smith are seeking class action status for their suit against two dozen companies involved in the gun industry. They claim the defendants should be held responsible for negligently entrusting their guns to customers and creating a public nuisance.

The public nuisance part of the lawsuit will go forward.

A second public nuisance lawsuit against gun makers also is pending in Chicago courts, filed by the city of Chicago.

(C) 2000 UPI All Rights Reserved.



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Jeez, they can't even pull it off in Chicago. If you can't run a scam in Chicago, especially one the local politicians believe in, you ain't trying.
 
negligently entrusting their guns to customers???????

What do these people think, that the guns we buy are merely on loan to us??

NINCOMPOOPS! WE'RE SURROUNDED BY NINCOMPOOPS!

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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.
 
Good point. They didn't "entrust" it to me. It's not a freakin' baby. I wanted a gun, so I went to a place that sells them, and I handed them some money. Then I paid all the bribes to the government, waited out their delay, let them intrude into my personal information.....well, that could go on for awhile.

The point is, I BOUGHT it. It's not a damn adoption agency.
 
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