All the headlines from our Gun Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 17 2021 // A group of gun manufacturers, distributors and retailers on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a New York law that allows the state and people affected by gun violence to sue the industry.The...
Nov 16 2021 // Police in Rochester, New York, are investigating a string of fatal shootings that came just hours after Mayor Lovely Warren declared a local state of emergency to combat rising gun violence. The recent killings, including...
Oct 29 2021 // Light from a high afternoon sun slanted through the tall windows of the weathered wooden church, catching on the plank floorboards and illuminating the stained glass. Outside, the arid ground of the northern New Mexico...
Oct 24 2021 // Safety standards developed by film studios and labor unions are the primary protection for actors and film crews when a scene calls for using prop guns. The industry-wide guidance is clear: “Blanks can kill. Treat...
Aug 26 2021 // The National Rifle Association announced it has canceled its annual meeting, which had been set to be held next month in Houston, due to concerns over COVID-19.The NRA’s meeting had been set for Sept. 3 through Sept....
Aug 11 2021 // Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies badly wounded in an ambush shooting last year sued a Nevada company for making the parts for a “ghost gun” used in the attack.The lawsuit alleges Polymer80 Inc....
Aug 4 2021 // Mexico sued several gun makers in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday, accusing them of reckless business practices that supply what it called a “torrent” of illegal arms to violent Mexican drug cartels, leading...
Jul 30 2021 // The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims’ families nearly $33 million to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the...
Jul 1 2021 // San Jose, Calif., officials have passed a new law that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee to cover taxpayers’ costs associated with gun violence.The law is the first in the U.S. and was...
Jun 25 2021 // The man who gunned down 26 people at a Sutherland Springs church in Texas’ deadliest ever mass shooting should not have been able to buy the assault style weapon he used, but the store that sold it to him can’t...
Jun 10 2021 // New York’s attorney general could sue gun manufacturers under certain scenarios under a bill that passed the state Senate and Assembly on Tuesday as lawmakers continued wrapping up this year’s legislative...
Jun 8 2021 // The National Rifle Association has dropped a lawsuit accusing New York’s attorney general of suing the gun rights group last year out of political hostility, opting to challenge her through counterclaims in the same...
Apr 30 2021 // A judge ordered the National Rifle Association to provide the names Lloyd’s of London agents or employees who the gun rights group says have information backing its claim that New York’s insurance regulator...
Apr 28 2021 // The city of Chicago has filed a lawsuit against an Indiana gun store, contending it has sold hundreds of guns to straw buyers that in turn have ended up in the hands of felons or at crime scenes in the city.The lawsuit...
Apr 19 2021 // Texas handgun owners would no longer need a license or training to carry their weapon in public under a bill that cleared a major vote April 15 over Democrats who railed against loosening gun laws after the 2019 mass...
Apr 19 2021 // New Jersey would mandate safety courses in order to get a gun permit, require lockboxes for out-of-use firearms and change state law to hold firearm makers liable for harm stemming from gun use, among other changes...
Apr 14 2021 // Missouri lawmakers on April 12 advanced a sweeping firearms bill that would allow concealed guns on public transportation and in churches.The Republican-led House gave the measure initial approval in a voice vote. It needs...
Feb 4 2021 // Workers’ compensation underwriters are about to be tested in the marketplace like never before.While the current situation is not all because of the pandemic, the pandemic has “put gas on a fire that was...
Jan 25 2021 // The son of a couple killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 worshippers is suing the National Rifle Association, arguing the group’s inflammatory rhetoric led to the violence.Marc Simon, the son of...
Jan 11 2021 // The Boulder City Council in Colorado has approved an $875,000 settlement with a man who was injured after a police officer shot him with a stun gun in March 2019.Christopher Mahan got into the wrong Lyft vehicle while...