Posted on 04/14/2016 12:27:49 PM PDT by jazusamo
A lawsuit can go forward against the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, a judge ruled Thursday.
Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis said that a 2005 federal law protecting gun-makers from lawsuits does not prevent lawyers for the victims' families from arguing that the semi-automatic rifle is a military weapon and should not have been sold to civilians.
Lanza, 20, killed 20 first-grade students and six educators on Dec. 14, 2012 with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle that his mother had bought legally. Lanza killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their Newtown home with a different gun before going to the school a few miles away, and then killed himself as police arrived.
The families of nine children and adults killed at the Newtown school and a teacher who survived the attack are suing Remington Arms, the parent company of Bushmaster Firearms, which made the weapon used in the school shooting.
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Only if you're speaking of self loading arms only.
Of course this suit is allowed to move forward. When Hillary wins we are in serious trouble on guns...well everything. Guns will be outlawed soon after she is in office.
Good news—Can’t wait to sue GM.
They obviously aren't going to be impeached, so something has to change the status quo.
And the manufacturer of everything else on Earth as well.
yes sinle action.
Self loading usually refers to cartridges subsequent to firing the first being chambered by the loads energy.
All it takes is President Hillary + Two Leftist SCOTUS appointments and that will be all she wrote for the Second Amendment.
Count on it.
It is not a military weapon BECAUSE it is semi-auto ... judge, if you are going to rule on a weapon case ... get a clue about weapons.
Would a bolt action 22 rifle be a military weapon because some snipers use bolt action rifles?
Soon to be upheld by our 8-member neutered Supreme Court.
“... Judge Barbara Bellis said ... a military weapon
should not have been sold to civilians ...”
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In United States v. Miller (1939),
the Supreme Court determined that the Second Amendment
did not guarantee a citizen’s right to possess a sawed off shotgun
because that weapon had not been shown to be “ordinary military equipment”.
For those that want some background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_in_Arms_Act
Text: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/7901
(1) To prohibit causes of action against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms or ammunition products, and their trade associations, for the harm solely caused by the criminal or unlawful misuse of firearm products or ammunition products by others when the product functioned as designed and intended.
Seems to me that shooting up a school qualifies as “... unlawful misuse of firearm products...”
This should be an easy case as no military fields the AR-15 as a battle rifle nor is there negligence in selling it.
a name that’s probably offensive to someone
It's a sexist, patriarchal, phallocentric expression of the Rape Culture ...
The judge will soon learn the meaning of “reversed on appeal.”
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act was passed to prevent exactly these sorts of frivolous lawsuits, and this judge is why an Act was needed.
I would say prepare for it. It is going to happen. The question is, what are you [me] going to do? I made peace with my Maker and I am ready to go should I live that long. The only way I know I won’t die is in one of Hillary’s camps.
You forgot rail guns.
Yup. Bolt action, revolver, falling block, lever action, pump action, break action, chain, and Gatling (both manual and powered.)
Then under automatic and semi-automatic there are gas operated, short recoil operated, and long recoil operated.
At one time, Barbra was a female name.
According to this idiot judge my 5-shot semi auto hunting rifle is a military weapon.
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