At the end, the reasoning appears as follows: If a criminal steals my Glock 22 (a machine gun under DC law) or buys his own, goes to DC, shoots a DC resident, then that resident (or his family) have a cause of action against Glock if they can tie Glock to the weapon used. So, if the criminal drops the Glock at the crime scene, DC law will allow a cause of action against Glock. If they can't tie the gun to Glock and there are other manufacturers that could have supplied the gun, there is no cause of action against Glock.
It doesn't matter that the Glock 22 is legal for sale in every other state in the union. Because DC has decided these firearms [semi-automatic firearms with large capacity ammo magazines] are especially dangerous, this court's opinion is that the cause of action depends only on whether a shooting can be tied specifically to one manufacturer. Phil > Reversed in part to allow further discovery on one count. > > http://www.dcappeals.gov/dccourts/appeals/pdf/03-CV-24+.PDF > > > ****************************************** > Professor Joseph Olson; J.D., LL.M. > Hamline University School of Law > St. Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 > tel. (651) 523-2142 > fax. (651) 523-2236 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. > > -- The Art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on. -- Ulysses S. Grant _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
