Massachusetts lawmakers will get the opportunity to consider a bill opening up firearm makers, distributers, and sellers, to lawsuits over the criminal misuse of guns.
The Boston Herald reported the bill places so-called “reasonable controls” on above-mentioned members of the firearms industry, including a mandate “to follow safeguards and business practices that backers say are designed to prevent the sale or distribution of guns to people prohibited from possession under state or federal law or individuals deemed to pose a ‘substantial risk’ of harming themselves or someone else.”
Firearms makers, distributors, and sellers would also have “to ensure that firearms aren’t designed, sold and advertised, to promote the conversion of legal products into illegal products, or in a way that targets minors or individuals prohibited from possessing guns.”…