NRA lobbyist: 'Bernie's right' about lawsuits against gunmakers
A day after the National Rifle Association endorsed Donald Trump for president, the groups chief lobbyist said Bernies right when it comes to lawsuits against gunmakers.
For months, Hillary Clinton has slammed her opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders, for supporting a 2005 federal law that bars lawsuits against gun companies when their products are misused by criminals.
On Saturday, at the annual meeting of NRA members in Louisville, Kentucky, the NRAs chief lobbyist played a clip of a response from the Vermont senator.
During a March debate in Michigan, Sanders said: If you go to a gun store and you legally purchase a gun, and then, three days later, if you go out and start killing people, is the point of this lawsuit to hold the gun shop owner or the manufacturer of that gun liable?
If they are selling a product to a person who buys it legally, what youre really talking about is ending gun manufacturing in America. I dont agree with that.
A hall full of NRA members gave the clip a smattering of applause. To laughter, Chris Cox, head of the NRAs Institute for Legislative Action, said: I dont say this often
OK, fine, Ive never said it. But Bernies right.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/nra-executive-bernie-sanders-right-gun-lawsuits