Remington liability case documents opened up to public

[SecularMotion]

A federal district court ruled Tuesday that the public should have access to sealed court documents in a product liability case involving one of the largest rifle manufacturers in the world.

The ruling comes in Aleksich vs. Remington, a 1991 case involving an incident where a Butte teenager was wounded in a discharge of a Model 700 rifle.

A California law firm sought access to the documents on behalf of Richard Barber of Manhattan, whose 9-year-old son, Gus, was killed when the family's Model 700 rifle misfired after a family hunting trip.

Through years of pain-staking research, Barber says design defects cause the rifle to fire without anyone pulling the trigger.

http://www.ktvq.com/news/remington-liability-case-documents-opened-up-to-public/

[ileus]

1. clean your bolt, you'll never have a problem.

maintenance it's what's for dinner...

[holdencaufield]

2. Honest, Officer ...

... the gun just "went off". You have to believe me!

[socialindependocrat]

3. If it was a design defect - Don't you think that Remington would have sent out a notice about it?

Why were the court records sealed? What's the secret?

I know, read the rest of the article.

I'll be back....

[slackmaster]

4. LOL @ "pain-staking"

painstaking

1pains·tak·ing

noun \ˈpān-ˌstā-kiŋ\
Definition of PAINSTAKING
: the action of taking pains : diligent care and effort
First Known Use of PAINSTAKING
1538
Rhymes with PAINSTAKING
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2painstaking

adjective
Definition of PAINSTAKING
: taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort
— pains·tak·ing·ly adverb
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Examples of PAINSTAKING

The book describes the election process in painstaking detail.
<she was always painstaking about her work>

First Known Use of PAINSTAKING
1696
Related to PAINSTAKING
Synonyms: careful, conscientious, fussy, loving, meticulous, scrupulous
Antonyms: careless

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A California law firm sought access to the documents on behalf of Richard Barber of Manhattan, whose 9-year-old son, Gus, was killed when the family's Model 700 rifle misfired after a family hunting trip.

Maybe Mr. Barber should have unloaded his rifle after the hunt was over.

Another example of why basic gun safety should be taught in public schools.

[GreenStormCloud]

5. Over a milion of those have been made.

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The Army used it as a sniper rifle in Vietnam. Now, after all those rifles and all those years someone claims there is a design defect? Why didn't it show up decades ago?

[Missycim]

6. Its just (IMHO) to set a precedence

so control freaks can sue some more and more and more, until what the couldn't do in the legislatures can be done in the courts.

[GreenStormCloud]

9. You may be right. I wonder who is funding the suit? N/T

[Remmah2]

7. If you abuse or neglect equipment hard enough it can malfunction.

The wild card is the owner. Many people I know don't mantain their cars, chainsaws, power tools, houses, firearms, lawnmowers, garage door openers, yet the equipment is "junk" if it malfunctions.

Some people blunder through life wondering what the hell happened.

[Callisto32]

12. "[Most] people blunder through life wondering what the hell happened."

FIFY.

[Remmah2]

8. Official Remington Response

http://www.remington700.tv/

[spin]

10. Interesting video which I might question ...

except for the fact that the media has a long history of distorting the facts about firearms.

[Callisto32]

11. This happened to me once.

I was firing a friends 700 in 6mm, a wonderful shooter it was. Then it fired upon closing the bolt, this was the 3rd shot on a clean bolt assembly. We put that particular rifle away for the rest of the day. I don't think we ever really talked about it again, and I lost touch with the fellow, but it definitely does happen.

That said, design defect is a bit much to conclude. Millions (I think) of those things exist, and as with any machine a certain rate of failure is to be expected.