Sen. Blumenthal: We're Breaking Grip of NRA

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Democrats launch renewed drive to scrap gun industry lawsuit protections


Democrats on Capitol Hill announced a proposal on Thursday with the help of gun control groups that would repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

The measure, to be introduced in the Senate by Connecticut lawmakers Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and in the House by California Rep. Adam Schiff and Connecticut Rep. Elizabeth Esty, would strip away the decade-old safeguard passed by Congress that insulates the gun industry from frivolous lawsuits.

“Making the gun industry immune from lawsuits effectively handed them a license to kill,” said Murphy in a statement. “Toy manufacturers are held legally responsible if their neglect or irresponsibility hurts people, so why on earth aren’t gun manufacturers?”

In October 2005, President George W. Bush signed PLCAA after it had passed through Congress by better than a 2-to-1 margin. The act prohibits both lawful firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable for negligence when crimes have been committed with their products. Democrats have repeatedly attempted to roll back the protection for several years with little result. An identical measure filed last year by the same set of lawmakers failed to move out of committee.

Gun control groups contend PLCAA is a sweetheart deal that costs lives. “More than 300,000 Americans have been killed with guns since Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act,” said Elizabeth Avore, legal and policy director at Everytown, in a statement issued through Esty’s office. “The Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act would right that wrong and make the gun industry play by the same rules as every other American business.”

Gun industry trade groups argue the protections are needed to protect against junk lawsuits designed to run licensed gun makers and dealers out of business while it still allows for legitimate liability claims such as in cases of defective products.

“The PLCAA exists because the Brady Center, greedy trial lawyers, and big city mayors got together in the late 1990’s to circumvent Congress and impose gun control regulation through litigation through settlements or bankrupt the industry with massive judgment,” Lawrence Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, told Guns.com previously.

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[bogey1]

Ban cars trucks cigarettes doctors cops buss's etc...

Idiots.

[jakebrake]

I hereby ban death in any way

[gummy jones]

Ban cars trucks cigarettes doctors cops buss's etc...

Idiots.

And heroin...

[jakebrake]

And heroin...

Alcohol

[Square Bag]

Eat a dick Blumenthal. Oh wait you do already. Never mind.

[JenniferG]

He's right. Due the amount of freeloaders the NRA doesn't have the political strength it could if everyone would chip in their efforts. Instead of sitting on the sidelines and watching become a member who contributes to the cause not just flapping your gums and being a keyboard commando.

[Justin2012]

The NRA is breaking it's own grip by alienating a lot of it's own members by supporting a bump fire stock ban. This is why I'm also a member of GOA.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017...-shooting.html

The National Rifle Association, in its first statement on the Las Vegas shooting and in a rare break from its traditional opposition to gun-related regulations, called Thursday for a federal review of so-called bump stocks and suggested new rules might be needed for the device apparently used by the shooter in Sunday’s massacre.

“The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations,” the NRA said in a written statement.

Bump stocks can be used to effectively convert semi-automatic rifles to fire so rapidly as to simulate an automatic weapon. The devices were found on guns used by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, who killed 59 and injured hundreds Sunday night.

The Obama administration’s ATF gave its seal of approval to selling the devices in 2010 after concluding that they did not violate federal law. On Thursday, the NRA called on the ATF to review that assessment.

“In Las Vegas, reports indicate that certain devices were used to modify the firearms involved,” the NRA said. “Despite the fact that the Obama administration approved the sale of bump fire stocks on at least two occasions, the National Rifle Association is calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law.”

[Emptymag]

As you see, "compromise" is seen as weakness - weakness that emboldens them.