We’ve seen a number of lawsuits against firearm manufacturers over the last few years. Those lawsuits overwhelmingly have been by Attorney Generals in anti-2A states like New York who are trying to get around the Constitution by suing gun manufacturers into bankruptcy to rob you and I of our Second Amendment rights without actually directly targeting you or me.
The outcome is the same, but they think that they can pretend that they weren’t going after our Second Amendment rights when, in reality, that was the whole point of those lawsuits.
It’s worth noting that Mexico tried to do the same thing.
So, in light of those lawsuits, it’s no surprise that a recent lawsuit against a major gun manufacturer was filed in the state of New York.
What is surprising is who filed it, though. It wasn’t filed by an Attorney General this time. Jonathan Stempel gives us the details:
Sig Sauer, the firearms manufacturer, must face a product liability lawsuit by an upstate New York police officer who was injured when his semi-automatic pistol inadvertently fired during a training exercise, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan revived claims by Michael Colwell, a Troy Police Department detective who said he suffered a leg injury when his department-issued P320 discharged in June 2021 despite being holstered. He said he never touched the trigger.
Now, I don’t know this particular police detective, and I can’t say whether the allegations of P320s going off on their own have any validity.
It’s never happened to me, and I’m not an engineer or a gunsmith who has dug into the inner workings of that particular pistol.
It is pretty unusual, though, to have a police officer actually file suit against a firearms manufacturer, but that’s the situation that we’re in.
Since it’s New York, I’m not terribly optimistic that Sig Sauer will get a fair trial there, but who knows? I could be wrong.
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