All the headlines from our Gun Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 9 2020 // After operating without incident for five years, a Sturgis gun store has been burglarized for the second time in two months.Sturgis Guns was broken into at 4:21 a.m. on Dec. 6, according to a police news release....
Nov 25 2020 // Can you be fired from a government job for using a firearm in self-defense? That question arose in a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The answer was … equivocal.Let’s first...
Nov 19 2020 // The parents of a Kansas City, Mo., man who died in a 2016 shooting have been awarded $4 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against a man who trafficked in firearms, as well as a gun dealer and manufacturer.Court documents...
Nov 19 2020 // The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has entered into a settlement with the National Rifle Association (NRA) to resolve alleged violations of New York insurance law.The settlement includes a monetary...
Nov 9 2020 // A St. Louis, Mo., couple facing felony charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters who marched near their home allege in a lawsuit that a news photographer trespassed to capture an image of the...
Nov 5 2020 // Georgia’s highest court on Monday found that a lower court was wrong to grant immunity from prosecution to three sheriff’s deputies facing murder charges in a stun gun death dating to July 2017.The three white...
Nov 2 2020 // The family of an armed man shot and killed by security guards in a suburban Las Vegas casino-resort last year is suing.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the son of 53-year-old Shannon Howell filed a wrongful death...
Oct 16 2020 // The family of an armed man shot and killed by security guards in a suburban Las Vegas casino-resort last year is suing.The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the son of 53-year-old Shannon Howell filed a wrongful death...
Oct 13 2020 // Authorities say an Uber driver has been arrested for allegedly firing a gun and injuring one of his passengers following an argument.Maricopa County Sheriff’s officials say 60-year-old Peter Caso was booked into jail...
Oct 8 2020 // The family of a Louisiana fourth grader is suing the public school system that suspended him after a teacher spotted a BB gun in his room during an online class session.The lawsuit filed in Louisiana’s 24th Judicial...
Sep 29 2020 // A man charged with wounding his boss and another employee in a shooting at a Connecticut trucking company told police his handgun fired by accident and he only intended to scare his manager, according to an arrest warrant...
Sep 2 2020 // Family members of two of the deceased Odessa, Texas, mass shooting victims are suing the person who supplied the AR-style firearm to the mass shooter and the gun parts manufacturer for over $1 million in damages.The...
Aug 26 2020 // Missouri lawmakers have advanced a bill that would legally allow people to give firearms to children without their parents’ permission after the governor had initially sought to increase the penalty for the...
Jul 15 2020 // The National Rifle Association will have to appear for a regulatory hearing over allegations it violated New York law by marketing an insurance policy for shootings that critics have dubbed “murder insurance.”A...
Jul 8 2020 // Minnesota public safety officials updated the state’s driver’s manual to give motorists who are legally carrying firearms some guidance on what to do if they are stopped by police, including instructions to...
Jun 24 2020 // Firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. negligently marketed the AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle that was used in a 2019 mass shooting at a California synagogue, victims and survivors claim in a lawsuit.The...
May 20 2020 // A U.S. judge is asking Nevada’s highest court to decide whether state law allows gun manufacturers and sellers to be held liable for deaths as he considers a lawsuit from the parents of a victim of the deadliest mass...
May 11 2020 // The 2014 shooting death of black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted angry protests and trained a national spotlight on a perceived lack of police accountability for violent...
May 8 2020 // Three McDonald’s employees in Oklahoma City suffered gunshot wounds when a customer opened fire because she was angry that the restaurant’s dining area was closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, police...
May 4 2020 // The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held that an insurer has a duty to defend its insured’s estate in a personal injury lawsuit brought by a man who was shot by the policyholder.This comes after Richard A. Carly came...