Home Guy wrote:
gonjah wrote:

Should we outlaw cars too harry?

Can consumers sue gun companies for product liability / defective
product reasons like they can for cars or other consumer products?

If an old lady can sue McDonalds because she burned herself when she
spilled a hot coffee, then why can't a home owner sue Smith & Wesson
or Colt because their product did not have enough built-in safety
mechanisms to prevent accidental injury or death?

If normal consumer product tort and liability laws applied to gun
companies as they do to all other consumer product companies, there
would be a much different gun situation in the US. Guns would be more
expensive and much safer to handle when exposed to children for
example.


Civil suits arising from damages caused by firearms are specifically
prohibited by "The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act," (2005), and
became Public Law 109-02 (15 USC 7901 et seq. ).

See
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-10...-109publ92.pdf