Ray From Cleveland
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The court cases will go nowhere. No way can a gun company be held liable for what people who buy their guns do.
The gun is the tool. The person using it is the weapon and unless you can control, ban or regulate murderous assholes you will always have victims.
At best they will find a sucker jury, win at trial, and lose on appeal.
Maybe. But boycotting the State is a better choice. Then they will close the legal loophole and allow Gun Makers the same legal protections that Car and Airplane manufacturers have.
The thing is it isn't illegal to buy something in one State and bring it to another, and governments can avoid the whole straw purchase thing, because they are government.
Let’s say the Connecticut State Police want to replace their pistols. They ask for bids. Nobody bids on the sale. Or perhaps some small custom pistol shop selling those $3000 1911 competition pistols. Are you telling me that Connecticut is going to go to New York or Massachusetts to buy them over the counter? They can’t by Federal Law. They have to be transferred in State via a FFL dealer.
The police can buy, but only if someone is selling. You can’t buy, nobody can buy something that isn’t for sale.
Even if they do, they will cost a lot more money, and be Civilian legal, ten round Magazines. Which means finding someone who will ship high capacity magazines. And if they do, and violate the agreement Glock as one example has, they could find it harder to get more products to sell.
it would cost at least half again as much as the bidding process. Same thing with Ammunition. If nobody bids, then they have to find someone who will sell and ship the ammunition. Right now the companies are competing, offering deals on the sales. If those companies say they don’t want the business. How long before the same politicians are ranting all red faced about how awful the companies are for not selling the guns and Ammunition?
If some libby court allows this to happen, then the gun manufacturer is still liable even if a police officer uses their weapon in self-defense. Not only should Remington pull all sales out of the state, but so should every other gun manufacturer. That would close down all the gun stores and people would have to get their arms from internet sales or physically buying them in another state.