Sturm Ruger: NJ Lawsuit Dismissed With Prejudice

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[Time is now]

"Where's everyone moving when JFK/Clinton presidency starts?"

I'll don a sandwich board proclaiming "The End Is Near" and walk the streets if that happens.

[FlyVet]

I wonder how much lower the cost of a good firearm would be, if companies like Ruger didn't have to pay so much for a legal team and liability insurance.

[Clemenza]

The City of Newark has been hovering above bankruptcy for years. A disproportionate amount of property is owned by religious institutions and cannot be taxed and most businesses once associated with the city fled years ago (or simply went out of business), taking their tax dollars with them. The few homeowners in the city must therefore bear the brunt of sky-high property taxes, which is why even working and middle class blacks have been fleeing the city.

This is just another example of Sharpe James's desperation to raise money to distribute to his cronies.

[mrustow]

In a press release Monday, Sturm, Ruger said it dismissed the case because the city failed to meet the requirements of a prior court order. The City of Newark needed to fulfill those requirements in order to apply for a reinstatement of the complaint prior to the March 1 deadline.

I would be interested in comments from those who are familiar with the case. It sounds like the judge may have given the City a chance to fix whatever he thought was wrong with the City's complaint, but the City's lawyers either decided they couldn't fix it or screwed up and missed the deadline.

Considering how corrupt and racist every public institution is in Newark, I'd bet on incompetence. How much you want to bet that city leaders scream "racism," in response to the judge's decision?

Every time such a nuisance suit is dismissed, it should be "with prejudice." Unfortunately, other judges have dismissed the suits without prejudice, meaning the jurists know the suits are without merit, but are giving the localities the chance to slowly bankrupt gun-makers through an endless procession of repeated, frivolous suits.

[Fred Hayek]

"few homeowners in the city must therefore bear the brunt of sky-high property taxes"

Is this also impacting the Ironbound? (I have not been in NJ since 1988). Last I remember about the Ironbound is that there had been several attempts to secede from the rest of the City of Newark. That would have meant that at least 60% of Newark's tax ratables would be gone (Is 60% too low?)

[Clemenza]

Last I remember about the Ironbound is that there had been several attempts to secede from the rest of the City of Newark

Yes, my father's (and by extension, half my family's) old neighborhood has tried to secede in the past. Its not going to happen, nor is Millburn ever going to succeed in seceding from Essex County. Secession must have the approval of the state legislature and the governor, neither of whom want to change things as they are.

Another problem with Ironbound/Downneck specifically is the fact that its population has shifted every twenty years as new immigrants move in and old immigrants move out. The Portuguese who replaced the Poles and Italians in the 1960s/70s are now moving to suburbia, just as they rose to political power. They are being replaced by Brazillians, Ecuadorians and Mexicans who are unable to vote and most likely will leave the neighborhood once they reach a certain level of success.

[WhiteyAppleseed]

We have a legal system that encourages off-shoring. Guns are used 2-3 times as often for defensive uses as they are to commit crimes. The 2 million plus Americans who use a gun to prevent harm should file a class action suit against the ambulance chasers and begin a kind of licensing program for them and when they create the kind of harm they do with their lawsuits.

Loser pays would mean they also lose their license to work. It's done to other occupations, why are lawyers exempt?

[WhiteyAppleseed]

Evidence enough. Who would you want running the country? A lawyer? Or a businessman?

Ironic, isn't it, that the Land of the Free has become the place where business flees to find liberty?

John Stossel, author of Give Me a Break write on p 239:

According to a study by media watchers Lichter, Lichter and Amundson, businesspeople represent 12 percent of all TV characters but commit 32 percent of crimes--and 44 percent of murders.

Substitute "black people" for "businesspeople" to view the issue from a different perspective.