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Friday, November 21, 2003
Anti-gun industry suit is reinstated
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated a wrongful-death lawsuit against the gun industry in a decision expected to reignite debate over legislation immunizing gun makers from being sued for crimes committed with their products.
Thirty-three states already have laws exempting gun manufacturers and distributors from such suits. The House passed a bill in April to extend the prohibition nationwide, and President Bush has said he would sign it. Senate Democrats have threatened to filibuster.
The 2-1 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstates a lawsuit against gun manufacturers and distributors whose weapons were used by white supremacist Buford Furrow, a Washington man who killed a Filipino American postal worker and wounded five people at a Jewish day care center in Los Angeles in 1999.
A Los Angeles federal judge in 2001 had thrown out the case, filed by victims' families.
A Glock pistol Furrow used to kill the postal worker originally was sold to the Cosmopolis Police Department. The department's unwanted pistols ended up at a Spokane gun show, where he bought one from an unlicensed dealer. Furrow was a member of the Aryan Nations.
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