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• shootbrownelk Posts: 2,035 Senior Member

  December 2014 #2

  A good many folks sue tobacco companies because a family member died of lung cancer. This country is sue crazy.

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• bobbyrlf3 Posts: 2,614 Senior Member

  December 2014 #3

  I would like to think that the judge who gets this case will dismiss it on general principle, but I'm not overly optimistic. I never thought anybody who sued the tobacco industry should get paid for the choices their relatives made to smoke, and I don't see this as being much different.

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• tennmike Posts: 27,457 Senior Member

  December 2014 #4

  It should be thrown out due to a law passed a few years ago by Congress. Can't sue the gun manufacturer for a death caused by murder; only can sue if firearm is defective and injures owner or someone the owner lets shoot it.
  
  Here's a small blurb on the law protecting firearms manufacturers from such suits:
  
  http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/articles/gun_bill.html
  
  The people initiating the lawsuit can't go after the kid because he has nothing, and he killed his mother, so suing her is out. The lawsuit is nothing more than a bunch of people trying to get their 15 minutes of fame.

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• roadking Posts: 3,056 Senior Member

  December 2014 #5

  Country is circling the tid-e-bowl man at full tilt. :bang:
  Couldn't find the face palm thingy.
  
  Matt

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• 1965Jeff Posts: 1,650 Senior Member

  December 2014 #6

  Might as well sue the vehicle manufacturer that he used to drive himself to the scene of the crime.

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