All the headlines from our Gun Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 23 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – After Mayah Zamora was shot and wounded at Robb Elementary School, her family did what many mass shooting survivors do: They sued.They sued the store off Main Street in Uvalde, Texas, that sold...
May 22 2023 // After Mayah Zamora was shot and wounded at Robb Elementary School, her family did what many mass shooting survivors do: They sued.They sued the store off Main Street in Uvalde, Texas, that sold the teenage gunman his...
May 19 2023 // The National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm sued to block Maryland from enforcing new gun-control measures that enhance requirements for obtaining concealed-carry permits and restrict firearms in sensitive areas...
May 18 2023 // Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed gun-control measures into law on Tuesday, after lawmakers passed measures this year in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.The high court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol...
May 18 2023 // A federal judge on Tuesday blocked part of New Jersey’s new handgun carry law that barred weapons from being carried in so-called sensitive places and halted a new insurance mandate the law sought to institute.Second...
May 17 2023 // NOTE: This is an excerpt from a longer article on IJ. Here’s the full article.When it comes to firearms and insurance, we can look at them in two ways. First, as items of personal property, in which case, in general,...
May 17 2023 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on additional protections for gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against lawsuits within a bill that lawmakers passed after a deadly school shooting in March.The...
May 17 2023 // It seems almost weekly there is a story or two in the national headlines addressing gun violence in the U.S., and a recent Insurance Journal story indicated respondents of a survey thought insurance could have a role in...
May 12 2023 // Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday signed into law legislation designed to place more school resource officers in Tennessee public and private schools, funnel additional money into school security upgrades, and require every...
May 12 2023 // Four months after a 6-year-old Virginia boy shot and wounded his teacher as she taught class in Newport News, an attorney for the boy’s mother said it still is not clear how the boy got the gun.Police have said Deja...
May 10 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Facing new pressure over gun violence in Texas after two more mass shootings, Republicans on Monday unexpectedly allowed a bill that would raise the purchase age for semiautomatic rifles from 18...
May 5 2023 // Three out of four Americans believe gun owners should be required to have firearm liability insurance, according to a recent survey.Those are the numbers out of a new ValuePenguin survey of 1,995 people ages 18 to 77...
May 2 2023 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Friday that a special lawmaking session dedicated to possible changes to the state’s gun laws in the wake of a deadly school shooting last month would likely have to take place after July...
Apr 20 2023 // In the wake of a deadly school shooting last month, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee awarded final passage Tuesday to a proposal that would further protect gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against...
Mar 16 2023 // Mexico has filed an appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S.-based gun manufacturers, it said on Wednesday, looking to crack down on the trafficking of weapons to powerful drug cartels.A U.S. judge in September dismissed the...
Mar 13 2023 // The New York attorney general has won an order that stops gun companies from selling or distributing unfinished or unserialized gun parts used to assemble untraceable “ghost guns” to New York consumers.U.S....
Mar 10 2023 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City has reached a settlement with one of the gun dealers it accused in a lawsuit of contributing to surging violence in the region by ignoring evidence that firearms were being sold...
Mar 9 2023 // Connecticut on Tuesday sued four gun companies it accused of mailing illegal firearm parts with no serial numbers to an undercover state investigator, the latest legal filing by states and cities seeking to crack down on...
Mar 7 2023 // A Florida man left paralyzed when a police officer shot him after mistaking his handgun for his stun gun filed a lawsuit last week against the city, the officer and others, saying, “my life got...
Mar 3 2023 // Iowa lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow employees to carry firearms or ammunition onto employer’s property if the guns or ammunition are out of sight and locked in a vehicle.An employer, owner or...