Plan to undercut 2nd Amendment disguised as product liability

[Elderberry]

The Day by Chris Powell 6/17/2019

Many people are honest about their opposition to the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. They support repealing the amendment or reconstruing it so the right is enjoyed only by members of the militia, the National Guard. Others urge outlawing semi-automatic guns, "semi-automatic" sounding scary but actually defining nearly every modern gun, guns that reload themselves. That would leave only shotguns and antique single-shot rifles and pistols available for general use. The objective of these people is forthright: to disarm everyone but the government.

Connecticut's U.S. senators, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, are not among the honest opponents of the right to bear arms. Instead they again have introduced legislation in Congress to allow gun manufacturers to be sued for the criminal use of their products, lawsuits now prohibited by the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

Since there will always be both legal use and criminal use of guns, as there will always be legal and criminal use of many other things, subjecting gun manufacturers to financial damages for criminal use of their products will let any jury overcome by the emotion of a gun fatality or injury to bankrupt the manufacturer of the gun involved and thereby eventually stop all legal gun production in the country.

More: https://www.theday.com/article/20190617/OP04/190619511

[thackney]

...Others urge outlawing semi-automatic guns, "semi-automatic" sounding scary but actually defining nearly every modern gun, guns that reload themselves. That would leave only shotguns and antique single-shot rifles and pistols available for general use....

Do you think the author does not understand semi-automatic includes many shotguns?

[Smokin Joe]

The Day by Chris Powell 6/17/2019

Many people are honest about their opposition to the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. They support repealing the amendment or reconstruing it so the right is enjoyed only by members of the militia, the National Guard. Others urge outlawing semi-automatic guns, "semi-automatic" sounding scary but actually defining nearly every modern gun, guns that reload themselves. That would leave only shotguns and antique single-shot rifles and pistols available for general use. The objective of these people is forthright: to disarm everyone but the government.

Connecticut's U.S. senators, Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, are not among the honest opponents of the right to bear arms. Instead they again have introduced legislation in Congress to allow gun manufacturers to be sued for the criminal use of their products, lawsuits now prohibited by the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

Since there will always be both legal use and criminal use of guns, as there will always be legal and criminal use of many other things, subjecting gun manufacturers to financial damages for criminal use of their products will let any jury overcome by the emotion of a gun fatality or injury to bankrupt the manufacturer of the gun involved and thereby eventually stop all legal gun production in the country.

More: https://www.theday.com/article/20190617/OP04/190619511

The only way around this is to acquire the skills needed to assemble your own, and if necessary to complete the machining on the parts that need that (80% receivers). It is difficult to blame manufacturers who only made a part, or not even a finished part.