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Democracy Labs<p>What’s the difference between tainted milk and weapons of war?<br><a href="https://thedemlabs.org/2024/09/22/repeal-plcaa-to-hold-gun-makers-accountable/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedemlabs.org/2024/09/22/repe</span><span class="invisible">al-plcaa-to-hold-gun-makers-accountable/</span></a><br><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a></p>
Deborah Rose ❌👑<p>Frequently Asked Questions About Gun Industry Immunity - Center for American Progress</p><p>The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act prevents the gun industry from being held accountable for harm caused and disincentivizes the industry from ensuring consumer safety. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/frequently-asked-questions-gun-industry-immunity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">americanprogress.org/article/f</span><span class="invisible">requently-asked-questions-gun-industry-immunity/</span></a></p>
Deborah Rose ❌👑<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Strandjunker</span></a></span> George W Bush also passed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a> in 2005, making gun manufacturers immune from civil lawsuits.</p>
Deborah Rose ❌👑<p>A federal gun industry immunity law adopted in 2005 (signed by George W. Bush) slammed courtroom doors shut on many civil claims against the gun industry. But state laws can help push back on these greedy gun corporations. It's time to change this law. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GunViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GunViolence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GunControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GunControl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a><br><a href="https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/gun-industry-immunity/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-law</span><span class="invisible">s/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/gun-industry-immunity/</span></a></p>
Heidi Li Feldman<p>The shootings in Missouri today are another clarion call: every state in the U.S. can and should enact statutes to ground civil suits against irresponsible <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gun</span></a> manufacturers and sellers. The gun industry is fighting these statutes in court. I explain and defend the desirability, lawfulness, and constitutionality of such statutes in this article, forthcoming in Yale Law Journal Forum. Neither <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a> nor the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SecondAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecondAmendment</span></a> invalidate these laws. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dw3rMKXX1DlHKa9GXk1bojxSgYUxsP8r/view?usp=drivesdk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drive.google.com/file/d/1Dw3rM</span><span class="invisible">KXX1DlHKa9GXk1bojxSgYUxsP8r/view?usp=drivesdk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFedi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KansasCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KansasCity</span></a></p>
Heidi Li Feldman<p>Forthcoming, Yale Law Journal Forum, by me: a defense of statutes that create public nuisance and consumer protection causes of action against firearms manufacturers for failure to take reasonable measures to control the flow of guns to criminal users. Such laws qualify as predicate statutes under The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a>). They neither implicate nor infringe the constitutional right to bear arms. Public access to preprint at <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PNxb_uofV9dzCZxQEm6VTKkZboRLNqb/view?usp=drivesdk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drive.google.com/file/d/15PNxb</span><span class="invisible">_uofV9dzCZxQEm6VTKkZboRLNqb/view?usp=drivesdk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFedi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bruen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bruen</span></a></p>
Heidi Li Feldman<p>Now available on SSRN, prepublication draft of my forthcoming article, What It Takes to Write Statutes that Hold the Firearms Industry Accountable to Civil Justice at <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4709711" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf</span><span class="invisible">m?abstract_id=4709711</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFedi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bruen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bruen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2A</span></a></p>
Heidi Li Feldman<p>I’ve very quickly sketched how the gun industry and gun zealots have attempted, with great success, to put the gun industry beyond the reach of law. There is nothing in American history or legal precedent that justifies this utterly bizarre situation. 4/4 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawFedi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GunViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GunViolence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/2A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2A</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicNuisance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicNuisance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a></p>
Heidi Li Feldman<p>Furthermore, gun manufacturers and the groups that lobby and litigate on their behalf are aiming to further throttle civil accountability by arguing that violations of public nuisance laws may not be used as a basis to bring some lawsuits within a clear exception to the otherwise broad ban, implemented by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a>, on suits against gun manufacturers who cause mass murders by marketing their guns to civilians particularly likely to use them to commit this sort of violence. 3/</p>
Let's go to the 3DBB.<p>Repeal <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a>. When the arms manufacturers need to produce their records in discovery, when they start losing tens of millions in liability judgments, they'll start making changes just to stay alive. Think of tobacco in 1960 and tobacco today. It was the lawyers who made that happen and they can do it again. It's the easiest argument to make. "No government regulation but no special indemnity for this one industry. The dead have earned their day in court." <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/TheDeadHaveEarnedTheirDayInCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheDeadHaveEarnedTheirDayInCourt</span></a></p>
Let's go to the 3DBB.<p>There are too many, and too many varieties, of guns to legislate away, too many who-cans and how-do-you-stops. Repeal <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a> and arms makers will impose their own limits to avoid expensive liability awards. <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/TheDeadHaveEarnedTheirDayInCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheDeadHaveEarnedTheirDayInCourt</span></a>. Why Does the U.S. Have So Many Mass Shootings? Research Is Clear: Guns. <a href="https://nyti.ms/2hODjP5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nyti.ms/2hODjP5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Let's go to the 3DBB.<p>The <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/gunindustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gunindustry</span></a> would not be lobbying States to enact <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/opencarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opencarry</span></a> laws if they weren't indemnified under <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/PLCAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLCAA</span></a>.</p>
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