[gonzo]

G'mornin', Pancho. ..........FRegards

[dhuffman@awod.com]

I believe that the more telling comment has been made by Limbaugh's brother. He has noted that the left demands proof positive of Soddamn Hinsane's misbehavior before disarming him all the whilst insisting that good citizens everywhere be preemptively disarmed.

[Hugin]

In another, the NAACP is suing numerous gun-makers seeking restrictions on the marketing and sale of firearms because of the "disproportionate impact of gun violence on African Americans." I've been scratching my head in vain to figure out what gun manufacturers have to do with that.

Imagine what the NAACP would say if a gunmaker told it's distributors not to sell to blacks.

[Houmatt]

Brady's Legal Director Dennis Henigan said, "If you're going to choose to sell this kind of a high firepower military gun to the civilian population, we're saying you have a special responsibility to make sure that the dealers you're using to sell that gun themselves act responsibly." What? You've got to be kidding. These people expect manufacturers to monitor and micromanage their dealers?

Yep. In the same way bartenders are having to monitor and micromanage their customers.

Babysitting drunks should not be part of a bartender's job description, but there it is.

[Joe Brower]

[oyez]

bfl

[1Old Pro]

Gun manufacturers should be applauded for standing up to this bullying. If they roll over on frivolous suits, the gun-control zealots will have effectively circumvented the political process and further chipped away at the beleaguered Second Amendment.

Most manufacturers have stood up, some have rolled over.

[Ancesthntr]

In the absence of a claim that these guns were defective or illegally made or sold, it is outrageous to hold their manufacturers and sellers liable for the intentional (or negligent) acts of third parties not under their control.

If this B$ argument holds up, every auto company will go broke overnight because of the actions of drunks. As a result, millions will lose their jobs, and tens of millions who didn't drive drunk will have no cars to buy. Makes sense to me.

If you ask me (and I'm a lawyer), any lawyer who prepares a products liability suit against a company on the basis that the product it made worked as intended, without any defects should be fined by the court for wasting its time and then disbarred.

[Billthedrill]

What they're actually doing is a bit more than bullying; it's clearing the field for innumerable numbers of small bullies to pile on to the point where the manufacturers and distributors will not be able to defend all the lawsuits. This is an attempt to create a new liability theory out of whole cloth, much as they did with "Big" tobacco. They don't actually have to win any of the lawsuits, all they have to do is enable their victims to be harrassed into bankruptcy.