Senate Approves Bill Protecting Gun Businesses

The New York Times ^ | 7/30/05 | CARL HULSE

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WASHINGTON, July 29 - The Senate agreed to shield gun manufacturers and dealers from liability lawsuits on Friday, as Congress broke for a monthlong recess after sending President Bush energy and transportation bills that had been years in the making.

Long sought by the gun lobby, the Senate measure - approved 65 to 31 - would prohibit lawsuits against gun makers and distributors for misuse of their products during the commission of a crime. Senate supporters said the plan was needed to protect the domestic firearms industry from a rash of lawsuits that threatened its economic future.

"This bill is intended to do one thing and that is to end the abuse that is now going on in the court system of America against law-abiding American businesses when they violate no law," Senator Larry Craig, an Idaho Republican who is a chief advocate for gun-rights causes in Congress, said Friday.

Democratic opponents of the bill disputed the assertion that a lawsuit crisis threatened the industry and said that the measure was simply a reflection of the National Rifle Association's influence over Congress.

"This is about politics, the power of the N.R.A. to dictate legislation," said Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, who led the opposition...

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"This is about politics, the power of the N.R.A. to dictate legislation," said Senator Jack Reed, Democrat...

Bwaaaaaaahhhhhhh!
Get over it, Senator.

[onevoter]

In any event, instead of going after the gun manufacturers, we should be going after the idiot judges who let criminals walk. Maybe once the judges, themselves, start being the target of lawsuits for irresponsible behavior, we'll see true litigation reform.

[still_learning]

"simply a reflection of the National Rifle Association's influence over Congress"

simply another group the Rats hate because they protect the Bill of Rights

[DefiantZERO]

Mayor Mikey Idiotberg was on John Gambling yesterday speaking against this bill. The same "Guns kill people!" crap you hear everywhere. Be grateful people like him don't run the show, or the country would end up looking a lot like it does back in England.

Republican, my @$$.

[ARCADIA]

Note: Senate version imposes mandatory gun locks

Read here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453685/posts

[goldstategop]

The House conferees can insist the mandatory trigger lock provision be removed or the requirement be made voluntary. All in all a good bill - at least its not loaded with "poison pill" amendments that would sink it.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Hardastarboard]

approved 65 to 31

Hey, Sarah Brady and Josh Sugarman - KISS MY @$$!

Woooohhhhhooooo!!!!

[secret garden]

This is a good start, in response to previous bad legislation.

[El Laton Caliente]

This is great! I heard someplace thar Ruger stock went fron a dollar something to over $14 a share with this news.

The gun lock thing isn't as big a deal as people are making out. It only applies to pistols and the vast majority are being sold with locks now anyway, because many states require them. There is still a chance that the joint committee will strip the lock ammendment before it is over.

[coloradan]

It went from about $9/share to not quite $12, starting at about noon thursday.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They are spot on right. The NRA MEMBERSHIP has demanded this and now finally has it done.

[El Laton Caliente]

Still wished I had bought last Friday!

[EagleUSA]

The anti-Second Amendment paranoid socialists in the Congress got one shoved right up their addresses. The treatment and harassment that the BATF has been DELIBERATELY conducting on law-abiding dealers is an atrocity and an afront to our CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS. It is about time something AMERICAN was done about it.

And to all those anti-American radical leftists, let this be a lesson that the PEOPLE STILL RUN THIS COUNTRY.....read the Constitution’s first words -—

WE THE PEOPLE....

[EagleUSA]

.....and said that the measure was simply a reflection of the National Rifle Association’s influence over Congress.
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A lesson for the far-left socialists. This is America, not Cuba or Venezuela. This was a win of AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS over the tyranny of leftist, anti-American socialists who would hold a Constitution burning party if they could get away with it.