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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-12-09 11:22 AM
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Claims against gunmaker Glock dismissed
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A federal appeals court dismissed damage claims against gun manufacturers Monday by the victims of a white supremacist's shooting rampage in the San Fernando Valley, saying a 2005 federal law backed by the firearms industry bars such lawsuits.

In a 2-1 ruling, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said Congress had the case in mind when it passed the law. Lawmakers did not violate the rights of victims of the 1999 shootings by limiting their right to sue federally licensed gunmakers and dealers for criminals' actions, the court said.

The 2005 law protects federally licensed gun manufacturers and sellers from liability for criminals' shootings. Two of the congressional sponsors said during debate that one case they wanted to dismiss was a suit arising from Buford Furrow's August 1999 bloodbath.

Furrow, a mentally disturbed man with neo-Nazi affiliations, took at least seven guns into a Jewish center in Granada Hills and opened fire, wounding three children, a teenager and an adult. An hour later, he fatally shot Joseph Ileto, 39, a letter carrier, in nearby Chatsworth.

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The suit said Glock Inc., maker of the 9mm pistol allegedly used to shoot Ileto, sold many guns to police that were unsafe to civilians and ignored government warnings about high-risk distribution channels - in this case, from a police department in Washington state through several owners to an unlicensed trader, who sold it to Furrow.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/12/BA0O17IHVV.DTL
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