Updated gun-grabbers’ tactics

The gun-banners are trying to do an end run around the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). Back in the ’90s and early oughts, high-priced lawsuits were filed against gun manufacturing companies in an effort to make them spend so much money defending from frivolous law suits that they would go broke even if the suits were utter nonsense. Hence the passage of the PLCAA, which says you can’t sue a company when their legal products are used as intended, nor if they are misused by miscreants. Think of the supply chain: in basic terms the manufacturer legally sells to a distributor, the distributor legally sells to a dealer, who legally sells to a lawful end user who passes his (ok, her/its/their/whatever for all our woke readers) FBI background check… and then a crime occurs. Maybe the original buyer commits a crime, maybe (and more likely) the gun is stolen and used in a crime – but the gun grabber’s scream that it’s the maufacturer’s fault! There is no special protection by eliminating such suits, NO product maker is liable for the criminal misuse of their product, else Ford et al would have been sued out of existence years ago by all the ambulance-chasing accident lawyers.

One of those people is Jonathan Lowy, the former chief legal counsel at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, who on Oct. 26 will announce the formation of a new lobbying group, Global Action on Gun Violence, focused on taking on gunmakers on behalf of foreign governments.

The group will partner with other countries to argue that their citizens are harmed by the actions of American gunmakers and the U.S. laws that protect them from litigation.

Lowy filed papers on Oct. 5 under the Foreign Agents Registration Act to provide legal and consulting services to the government of Mexico and plans to work with other nations on similar efforts.

Lowy has already worked with the government of Mexico and lawyers in Canada to file three lawsuits against U.S. gunmakers in the last four years. In 2021, Mexico became the first country to sue U.S. gunmakers when it filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts contending that some of America’s biggest gun manufacturers, including Smith & Wesson, Barrett Firearms, Beretta U.S.A. Corp, Century International Arms, Colt’s Manufacturing Company, and Sturm, Ruger & Co., design, market, sell, and distribute guns in ways they know “routinely arm the drug cartels in Mexico.” (A Massachusetts judge dismissed the case in September but Mexico plans to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which is based in Boston and which Mexican officials believe may be more sympathetic.)  Time

Lowy is also suing 5 Arizona gun dealers for funeling arms into Mexico. Funny, I’ll bet he forgot to name Obama and Eric Holder in that suit?  Oh, and he is also working on Canada’s behalf to sue S&W

Lowy is also working as foreign legal counsel in a class action filed in Canada in 2019 against Smith & Wesson brought by victims of a mass shooting in Toronto who alleged that the company was negligent when it did not implement available safety measures in manufacturing the product. A judge allowed the case to go forward in 2021 and it is still being litigated.  MSN

Often taking the form fingerprint sensor or a radio-frequency microchip, numerous “smart gun” technologies exist that can prevent unauthorized firing of a weapon. Gun lobby groups in the United States, led by the National Rifle Association, have fought for years against widespread adoption of the safety features.    The Guardian

Bet he doesn’t mention to the court that so-called ‘smart gun’ technology is resisted because it doesn’t work and if it does, is unreliable and can fail at a crucial moment so buyers won’t buy it?

Sounds like someone I would love to see pull a Leslie Jordan, me. (No offense to a great character actor.)

And on the government front, the ATF is carrying Joe’s water by trying to nitpick FFL dealers out of existence for minor paperwork errors.

Joe Biden first announced his zero-tolerance policy in June 2021. Part of his scheme included five criteria, which he claimed defined a rogue dealer: transferring a firearm to a prohibited person, failing to run a required background check, falsifying records, failing to respond to an ATF tracing request or refusing to allow ATF to conduct an inspection.

However, the ATF is now routinely revoking licenses for even the most minor of errors — errors not on Biden’s five-point list.

As a result, a special report we published in May revealed that FFL revocations increased a staggering 500 percent. Buckeye Firearms

First they tried to drive the dealers out of business, saying there were too many. Then they said almost anyone who semi-routinely sells guns MUST get a license… and now they are lifting those licenses to make it impossible to buy a gun. Sure, they will let you own the gun – you just won’t be able to find a dealer to sell one. ATF is so weaponized it makes the IRS look impartial.

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