HeyBub wrote:

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

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

And what logical, rational argument can anyone put forward defending
that law?

How would gun violence and death in the US be different if firearms were
treated EXACTLY like other consumer products under the law?

Why are they treated differently?