First, you can sue a firearms maker if the weapon is unsafe, or badly designed. Remington was sued for design flaws in the 700 series of rifles. But let’s talk about what you really want to do, blame the makers when a gun is used to murder someone.
Let’s say I am driving home, my wife and child are in the car. A drunk behind the wheel of a Ford F-150 pick up truck runs a red light and smashes into my car. He kills my wife, and child. Who is to blame? Is it Ford’s fault that the truck was driven by a drunk? Is the dealer to blame for selling the truck to someone who would drink and drive one day? They both did their jobs. Ford built a truck, the dealer sold it.
The protection act you are ranting about in a circular manner prevents frivolous lawsuits from bankrupting companies who like Ford in the example above, are making a product. It is not Boeing’s fault that idiots flew the plane into a building. It isn’t Microsoft’s fault that their simulator program allowed the terrorists to practice flying.
The dirty secret is you don’t want to sue a manufacturer for a defective weapon, you want to sue them for making a functional firearm to bankrupt them. If Smith and Wesson sells a defective weapon, they are liable. It isn’t anyone’s fault but theirs. The act you are raging against does not protect them from liability for manufacturing mistakes or design flaws.
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If you tried to sue Ford for the drunk driver, the case would be thrown out as frivolous. If you tried to sue Boeing for 9-11 the case would be thrown out for the same reason. It would never get to the point where a Jury would decide. We aren’t talking about reasonable liability lawsuits. You want to sue them for how their products are used. Behavior that is already prohibited by law.
You want to drive them out of business by flooding them with frivolous lawsuits. They did not grow them to kill people.As where guns were, And should pay for that.
That is exactly what the law is designed to protect against. It infuriates you because what is common sense for everything else, is the law for gun makers.