California’s gun laws, some of the nation’s strictest, did not keep Samuel James Cassidy from obtaining two semiautomatic handguns and using them to kill nine coworkers, and himself, at a San Jose rail yard. The lesson, a gun control advocate said Thursday, is that strong gun laws can’t always prevent violence, and people need to watch their friends, relatives and coworkers for signs of danger. But a firearms advocate said the real lesson is.
Joe Biden once had a term for politicians who were too cautious to push for meaningful gun reform legislation: cowards. “Why in God’s name can we say that we can’t do anything about 150,000 people being shot dead in the United States of America? Why are guns different?” Biden said during a campaign stop in Las Vegas in February 2020. “Because of cowardness. Because of cowards. Cowards who are afraid to take on these special interests because.
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The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) has long protected the gun industry from abusive lawsuits that the anti-gun Left would file if they could. No gunmaker can be sued for mass shootings or anything where their products were unknowingly and unwillingly used in a crime. It must be something serious that knowingly selling to FFLs that did business with straw purchasers or worse, sold guns with issues, like defective safeties, and did nothing about it.
These are legitimate legal points from which to file a lawsuit. Suing a gun maker simply because you hate the Second Amendment isn’t in the cards. The anti-gun Left knows this. They know the PLCAA is probably here to stay barring some seismic shift in elections. They still rail against it and call for its repeal. Joe Biden has joined that chorus now. So, how will they get around it? They’re going the consumer protection route. Yes, it’s a ruse – but don’t roll your
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An investigation is underway to understand how the young boy gained access to the gun.
A Maine gun safety group is now pushing for a bill that would require gun owners to keep firearms locked away.
A two-year-old boy shot his parents and wounded himself with a handgun after he discovered the weapon on his parents nightstand on Wednesday morning, the police said.
The child s 25-year-old father was shot in the head and his mother, 22, suffered a leg wound, according to Sagadahoc County Sherriff Joel Merry.
The toddler was struck in the face by the recoil of the handgun, Merry added.