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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm all for insurance and making owners liable for deaths/ injuries caused by their guns.  We need to stop calling irresponsible ownership and storage "accidents". [/quote]

I agree100% and I'm a staunch 2nd amendment supporter and NRA member. [b]I do not support holding gun manufactures accountable though.[/b] [/quote]

Can you say why not? Why should gun manufacturers enjoy special protection from liability? (I'm the "effing stupid" poster from earlier who mentioned the 2005 law.)[/quote]

NP here, but I tend to think of manufacturer liability as being applicable when the product failed or didn't do what it was designed to do. For example, GM's ignition switch debacle, or Takata airbags. Guns are designed to fire small projectiles out at high speed in order to put holes in things. Yes, too often that "thing" is a person's body, but it's hard to argue that the gun didn't do exactly what it was designed to do. Why should the gun manufacturer be sued for making a legal product that functions as intentioned? If somebody gets drunk and spins their SUV into a tree, the liability is not Range Rover's--the car worked fine. Now, if the gun misfired and blew up in the shooter's hand and severed their fingers, that would be manufacturer liability. I don't think it's special protection--what has the gun manufacturer done wrong? Their products do what they're supposed to, even if many of us don't like what that is, and they're perfectly legal.

The insurance idea is a fascinating one, though. I hadn't thought of something like that before.[/quote]
But there is special protection for gun manufacturers. It is the only industry I know of that has a law specifically limiting their liability. How is that not special protection?[/quote]

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