Aurora Victim’s Parents Face Bankruptcy After Suing Online Ammo Dealers, Vow To Change Colorado Law

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169. So is a civilian weapon designed to mow down dozens of people in seconds.

You apparently can't wrap your head around that being a defect because you think that is wonderful.

Just because something works as designed does not mean the design itself was not defective. If a product has a defective design, it is a defective product, even if it works as designed.

Metal-tipped lawn darts worked great. They impaled really well into grass...and people. It was foreseeable that kids throwing these things with their friends would end up hitting one of their friends with it. It was a really dangerously designed product that rightfully got sued out of existence.

AR-15s with high capacity magazines are a really dangerously designed and negligently marketed product that appeals to and enables mass murderers. That is its defect. That is the defect the Aurora families wanted to present in their lawsuit. It was foreseeable that this military weapon, made even more dangerous with high capacity magazines and marketed to Rambo types who wanted to get their "man card," as the Bushmaster ad said, would be used in mass killings. It was foreseeable that the unstable individuals such a weapon and ad campaign would entice would in fact use that gun to mow down large numbers of people in seconds, like the gun was (negligently) designed to do.

The gun manufacturers feared such lawsuits would be successful, so they got their shills in Congress to pass the PLCAA to block them. Now, the only defect they could sue Bushmaster for under the PLCAA, ironically, is if the gun didn't work as defectively designed. For example, Bushmaster could be sued if the gun failed to spray people with bullets like Bushmaster promised.