Nevada supreme court: gun makers not liable for 2017 Vegas shooting deaths

[Dial H For Hero]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/04/nevada-supreme-court-gun-makers-2017-mass-shooting-60-deaths-stephen-paddock

The Nevada supreme court has said gun manufacturers cannot be held liable for deaths in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip which killed 60, because a state law shields them from liability unless the weapon malfunctions.

The parents of a woman among those killed at a packed music festival filed a wrongful death suit against Colt Manufacturing and several other gun manufacturers in July 2019.

The suit said the gun companies “knowingly manufactured and sold weapons designed to shoot automatically because they were aware their AR-15s could be easily modified with bump stocks to do so, thereby violating federal and state machine gun prohibitions”.

Stephen Paddock used an AR-15 with a bump stock when he fired 1,049 rounds in 10 minutes on the crowd of 22,000 from his suite in a casino-resort tower before he killed himself.

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[Hoyt]

1. Hero, I'm so glad you are giddy that the gun manufacturers weren't held liable in this case.

[Dial H For Hero]

2. While I'm hardly "giddy", I do acknowledge that this was decided correctly.

How could it be otherwise, given that:

1). Any semiautomatic rifle (not just AR-15’s) can be bumpfired.

2). Bump stocks were perfectly legal in 2017.

[Demsrule86]

4. Oh please...your posts make it clear what your opinion is...

[Dial H For Hero]

5. I approve of the decision. That hardly makes me "giddy".

The suit didn’t have a prayer, it’s defeat is hardly fist-pump material.

[SYFROYH]

3. No less than the Obama BATFE said Bump Stocks did not turn AR15s into machine guns.

This is a correct legal decision.