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In reply to the discussion: How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)I'm sure that neither party got everything they wanted out of it. That's the nature of settlements.
But, because of the changes S&W agreed to, most people considered the lawsuit successful. Also, whether you personally think it was successful is totally irrelevant. What matters is that the lawsuits were not thrown out of court as frivolous. Instead, like tobacco companies or polluters or any other industry that causes harm, the gun industry was being held accountable for its actions.
The NRA obviously considered the lawsuits successful, which is why they bribed their congresspersons to carve out a special loophole for the gun industry. If, as you seem to believe, these were simply frivolous lawsuits with no consequences, then the NRA wouldn't have cared. It is precisely because the lawsuits were succeeding that the NRA placed so much importance on ensuring that the gun industry was above the law.