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In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence [View all]SunSeeker
(51,574 posts)Way past time to call that shit out. And the PLCAA which passed with Bernie's vote in 2005 is the NRA's crowning propaganda achievement. The NRA made PLCAA its top legislative priority in 2005 and the groups CEO Wayne LaPierre called it the most significant piece of pro-gun legislation in twenty years. It is what allowed the gun manufacturers to sell assault rifles with impunity when the assault weapons ban expired in 2004. Gun manufacturers now sell 1.5 MILLION assault weapons each year. And thanks to the PLCAA, they do it without fear of liability for selling a wildly inappropriate product to civilian consumers, so long as whoever was using it was committing a criminal act (which is always the case in mass shootings). No other consumer product manufacturers enjoys such an immunity. You can be illegally speeding, but if the car is partially to blame for an accident, the auto manufacturer is still liable. Not so with gun manufacturers.
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign and Center to Prevent Gun Violence, called the PLCAA a truly evil law and one of the worst pieces of special interest-backed legislation ever. It's way past time we held the people who passed it accountable.