My take on the "gun manufacturer" liability argument. [View all]

[Jnew28]

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If gun manufactures are held liable for gun deaths, then what's stopping this movement from attaching the same rationale to gun and bat producers (considering the associated FBI crime statistics)? It's just another way for the government to generate revenue - costs will be passed onto the consumer, which in essence is another state mandated penalty.

Or, one could use a proximate cause argument: how far down the line is a gun manufacturer liable if the gun is sold to a legal owner, but in the end it end up in the hands of a criminal (whether sold or stolen)? Was that foreseeable? It's just too much of a stretch. Most gun owners are responsible so it's not really a cogent presumption.

Now, it's a "product defect," that's a whole different story.

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