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...semiautomatic handgun that killed Andrew Young was one of 40 weapons a suburban gun shop sold to a single purchaser. In gun lingo these are "straw buyers," shady middlemen who do a brisk business reselling guns to convicted felons, minors and others with itchy trigger fingers but no legal right to own a gun. "You want to tell me this guy needs 40 guns for self-protection?" asks Young. "The gun industry knows what's going on in the street...
This Chicago suit is part of a wave of lawsuits against the $2 billion gun industry in which several new legal theories are being tested. In a New York City suit against 60 gunmakers and gun sellers, survivors of victims of gun violence are charging gun companies with distributing weapons in a way calculated to evade gun-control laws. Two California cases are going after the gun industry for making cop-killer bullets and guns that fail to indicate they're loaded when they have a round in the chamber but an empty clip. The families of two people killed...
...industry, these suits defy established law and basic fairness. Guns are legal to manufacture and safe when used properly. It isn't their fault, the manufacturers say, that criminals buy their products and use them to shoot people. "You don't sue General Motors when someone drives drunk and hurts someone," says Smith & Wesson lawyer Anne Kimball. The gun manufacturers say that going after them distracts from the real problems: crime and social breakdown...
Alas, it was not to be. The final straw for the Lewinsky family, we're told, may have been Ginsburg's decision to write an article for a California legal magazine in which he essentially acknowledged that his client committed perjury--an act so astonishingly boneheaded that even Ken Starr couldn't have thought...
...situation. Attorney General Janet Reno was characteristically blunt. "We still think we can proceed and we'll do so," she said on Wednesday. "We will prevail in the long run," a senior Justice official told The Netly News. "You have to look at these things like other epic legal battles. There are days when you have progress. This was a step backwards." Says the official: "These judges are wrong, and their decision, if it were binding, that's not what the law is. We filed a broad case involving a wide variety of unlawful action...