Posted on 09/10/2016 7:25:30 AM PDT by marktwain
Massachusetts’ controversial Attorney General, Maura Healy, who was elected last year, is being sued by two prominent and popular gun manufacturers, Remington and Glock. They contend that Healy is using the power of her office to harass them. From bostonglobe.com:
Both Remington and Glock have sued Healey in Suffolk Superior Court, arguing that she is abusing her authority by casting a broad net for documents, including those related to accidental discharges, past lawsuits, legal settlements, and product recalls.
Glock Inc.’s lawsuit asks the court to quash Healey’s inquiry.
The company, based in Smyrna, Ga., points to statements Healey has made calling gun violence a “public health crisis” and an “epidemic” to argue the “true purpose” of her investigation is “to harass an industry that the attorney general finds distasteful and to make political headlines by pursing members of the firearm industry.”
It is particularly weird considering that Glock pistols may only be legally sold to police in Massachusetts.
Healy misleads with lawerly parsing, spouting a Hillary Clinton talking point:
“This is the only product of its kind for which Congress has given the industry extensive freedom from liability,” she said at the White House. “That’s not right. The gun industry should be held to the same liability standards as the manufacturers and sellers of other consumer products.”
That may be correct, if parsed in a Clintonesqe manner. What other “product of its kind” exists except for firearms? Could it be crossbows? Blowguns? Taken that way, the statement becomes a truism.
Taken at face value, it simply is not correct. The protection that Congress has afforded the firearms industry is protection from lawsuit for actions of third parties that the companies have no control over.
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There is no reason to believe she has any ethics. She is clearly not a Christian.
I may be paraphrasing this, and I’m not sure where I read it, but the saying is something like:
“We are where we are today, because people like this are allowed to die of old age, at home surrounded by friends and family”.
(props to Dan Ayckroyd, SNL '75)
She’s gay? Whodathunkit?
This is becoming more and more a mainstream tactic of the left — use the courts and official positions to deny or silence or destroy those things with which you disagree. And, when they lose in court, they just ignore the ruling.
Liability standards? Just what liability does the product inherently contain?
Can one sue for the black thumb\medical bill hit by a hammer?
Is the vehicle responsible for the rear-end collision?
Far as I understand, most firearms have near lifetime warranties. Bad spring, frame, etc.? Send it in and it’ll ‘magically’ come back in pristine fashion.
Say, AG Headcase, can you define INFRINGE? Please contrast with GOVT disallowing the sale\ownership of a tool\product.
Yes, we all know the pretzel logic they wish to utilize to whittle down our INALIENABLE Rights.
Bottom line? Barack was right, elections do have consequences.
Some people shouldn’t get anywhere near any position of power.
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