Colorado Bill Would Make Gun Manufacturers And Sellers Liable For ‘Assault Rifle’ Users
The State of Colorado part IV
(Part I, part II and part III)
” Colorado Senate president John Morse has proposed yet another piece of gun control legislation for the state, one that would make gun manufacturers, distributors and gun sellers responsible for the actions of the people they sell or give guns to. This includes individual sellers, making everyone in the chain a potential target for civil suits.
The Senate Bill 196, also called the “Assault Weapons Responsibility Act”, was introduced Feb. 27 and it defines an ‘assault rifle’ as as any firearm other than a handgun, shotgun, bolt-action or lever-action rifle. The bill identifies two exemptions for use. The first is for defense of the home and the other for law enforcement. This bill would make a person liable even if they use a firearm legally, and also in the case of accidents.
It could, and probably will be argued, however, that this law is in direct conflict with the 2005 federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act which protects manufacturers and sellers from liability if an individual uses a gun in a crime. “
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- Colorado Bill would make Gun Manufactures and Sellers Liable for ‘Assault Rifle’ Users (guns.com)
- Colorado’s gun-liability bill raises political, legal questions (denverpost.com)
- State Sen. John Morse Proposes Liability For Assault Weapons (denver.cbslocal.com)
- ‘Assault Weapon’ Banners Still Can’t Say What an ‘Assault Weapon’ Is (reason.com)
- CO Democrat proposes liability for assault weapons (krdo.com)
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Making the gun sellers, manufacturers, and distributors responsible for others actions is absurd. Of course, when has a liberal ever taken responsibility for their own actions? Not very often, if ever.