General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence [View all]SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)No one is asking gun manufacturers to "perform law-enforcement functions." That is NRA dribble. We are simple asking that gun manufacturers not be exempted from the same consumers product liability laws that all other consumer product manufacturers are subjected to.
That's it. Repeal the PLCAA and make gun manufacturers play on a level playing field. Nothing "illogical" about it.
If dealers or manufacturers knew or had reason to know their guns were being sold to criminals and did not act reasonably to stop those sales, then the victims should be able to sue them. The PLCAA prevents such civil suits. That is unconscionable. Victims should be able to recover damages from those dealers and manufacturers to the extent those entities' acts or failure to act were negligent and a proximate cause of the victim's injuries...just like any other consumer product manufacturer.
Before the PLCAA was passed in 2005, gun manufacturers did not have that immunity, yet did not have to "perform law-enforcement functions." They just had to act responsibly, like all consumer product manufacturers.