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  • Gun makers score big win in court

    11/19/2004 6:27:03 AM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 23 replies · 661+ views
    Sun Times ^ | November 19, 2004 | Frank Main / Dave McKinney
    In a crushing defeat for gun control advocates, the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed two lawsuits against the firearms industry Thursday, prompting the father of 19-year-old shooting victim Andrew Young to say the justices "will have some of that blood on their hands now." The high court tossed out a $433 million lawsuit that Chicago and Cook County brought, as well as a lawsuit families of gun victims filed against firearms makers, distributors and suburban dealers. Steve Young, whose son Andrew was killed in 1996 by a gang member who got a gun through a middleman, said he was astounded. "After...