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billh58

(6,635 posts)
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 03:05 PM Jun 2017

Support for the repeal or replacement of PLCAA

Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders is announcing his support for legislation that would reverse a 2005 law granting gun manufacturers legal immunity that he once supported.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-01-16/sanders-says-he-supports-repealing-gun-manufacture-immunity

One Quick Answer to Sandy Hook? Repeal the 2005 Arms Act

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/one-quick-answer-to-sandy-hook-repeal-the-2005-arms-act/266371/

Democratic Lawmakers Seek Repeal of Protections for Gun Manufacturers

http://www.newsweek.com/democrats-seek-repeal-protections-gun-manufacturers-420361

Repeal PLCAA - Contact Your Senator to Cosponsor this Legislation

http://www.bradycampaign.org/RepealPLCAA

Blumenthal, Murphy Introduce Legislation to Give Gun Victims Their Day in Court and End Gun Industry's Liability Shield

https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/legislation-to-give-gun-victims-their-day-in-court-and-end-gun-industrys-liability-shield

Gun makers and sellers enjoy legal protections unlike any other American industry.

https://www.thenation.com/article/this-bill-would-strip-legal-immunity-from-the-gun-industry/

Immunizing the Gun Industry: The Harmful Effect of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/guns-crime/reports/2016/01/15/128949/immunizing-the-gun-industry-the-harmful-effect-of-the-protection-of-lawful-commerce-in-arms-act/

Clinton: Gun industry is 'wholly protected' from all lawsuits

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/16/hillary-clinton/clinton-gun-industry-wholly-protected-all-lawsuits/

Repealing the Gun Industry’s Unacceptable Liability Shield (Rep Adam Schiff)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-adam-schiff/repealing-the-gun-industr_b_10008044.html

There is broad Democratic support for the repeal of the obscene NRA-sponsored PLCAA which immunizes death merchants from litigation. The Second Amendment does NOT apply to "making arms" in any form or fashion. The NRA/ILA/GOA followers who are fainting from the vapors about their "rights" to protect manufacturers of deadly military-style weapons need to realize that the rest of us (the majority of Americans) have a right to our day in court for negligence, false advertising, predatory marketing, and all other forms of gun industry abuse.

Support the repeal of the PLCAA and a return to sensible gun control laws and regulations.

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