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18. What Are You Talking About?

Wed Oct 4, 2017, 06:04 PM

Oct 2017

The families of these victims can sue Anybody they want. They can sue the gun shop owner that sold the weapon, even if he did nothing wrong.

Whether they win at trial is another situation. But finding a lawyer to take the case, and suing every party imaginable, is completely legitimate.

My guess is the gun companies usually pay up so these things never make it to trial.

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CONFIRMED: Magpul PMAGs Used In Las Vegas Massacre [View all] angka Oct 2017 OP

the irony is going to be lapfog_1 Oct 2017 #1

Colorado's hypocrisy was breathtaking hack89 Oct 2017 #2

Wow. just wow. SMDH iluvtennis Oct 2017 #4

The owners should be arrested. Kingofalldems Oct 2017 #3

What law did they break? nt hack89 Oct 2017 #5

Maybe The Victims Will Sue This Company Out Of Business SoCalMusicLover Oct 2017 #7

You can't sue companies for selling legal products in accordance with the law hack89 Oct 2017 #9

What Are You Talking About? SoCalMusicLover Oct 2017 #18

The dealers are covered by the PLCAA hack89 Oct 2017 #19

The PLCAA only covers "firearms & ammunition" riverwalker Oct 2017 #62

OK. But it is hard to see how MagPul has any liablity hack89 Oct 2017 #71

And encouraging that nonsense is how several Sandy Hook victim families ended up stuck with legal AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #22

Sandy Hook failed because it went after the firearm riverwalker Oct 2017 #63

Functioned as intended, sold lawfully for lawful purpose. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #72

We have a ridiculous carve out for guns, unlike any other product sold, this one is Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #26

Sure they can sue everyone, but........... MichMan Oct 2017 #28

A few did and the companies came out fine... Baconator Oct 2017 #39

Here's an excellent writeup of all the legal ramifications of the shooting... forkol Oct 2017 #41

One person there riverwalker Oct 2017 #66

people sued the cig companies, and won. Mosby Oct 2017 #47

The cigarette companies were breaking the law hack89 Oct 2017 #48

Of course. Kingofalldems Oct 2017 #25

And I knew you could not answer a basic question. hack89 Oct 2017 #53

The first law of nature: Preservation of the species. crosinski Oct 2017 #8

Ok. Interesting legal theory. nt hack89 Oct 2017 #10

Maybe we should sue on behalf of the human race? n/t crosinski Oct 2017 #12

Sure, if you like being laughed at in court filings. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #13

I don't mind being laughed at. Do you? crosinski Oct 2017 #14

I prefer to do something productive. Like ask the BATFE to revisit its ruling that slide stocks are AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #15

So you think the way we have always done things is suddenly going to start working? crosinski Oct 2017 #16

Well, it's going to work better than doing something that has been tried over and over and failed. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #20

I think you've missed my challenge. What can YOU do that hasn't been done before? crosinski Oct 2017 #21

Well, in the past i've told people slide stocks are stupid and a legal risk. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #23

I think they'll get banned once they can figure out how to write legislation that specifically... EL34x4 Oct 2017 #36

Not necessary. The BATFE has sufficient authority to do it with a stroke of the pen. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #37

Congress is going to want to justify their existence Calista241 Oct 2017 #49

a better solution Ambivalent1 Oct 2017 #51

You won't be laughing when you have to pay Magpul's legal costs. EL34x4 Oct 2017 #35

No Standing RobinA Oct 2017 #24

good idea but that's like calling god as a witness HAB911 Oct 2017 #43

Yeah, I was using that as a metaphore to talk about ideals. crosinski Oct 2017 #46

You talking about jamzrockz Oct 2017 #69

Blood on their hands... paleotn Oct 2017 #31

That's nice. hack89 Oct 2017 #33

Difficult 1st post Ambivalent1 Oct 2017 #50

Thanks Ambivalent1. Welcome to DU Hangingon Oct 2017 #73

Reckless endangerment. harun Oct 2017 #74

Nope hack89 Oct 2017 #75

Over simplification. Do I think someone will charge them with this, no. harun Oct 2017 #78

That's not even 'high capacity'. A 20/thirty rounnd magazine is standard on an AR-15. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #6

He had stacks of the Surefire 100 rd mags. NT Adrahil Oct 2017 #40

Yeah, so THAT would be 'high capacity'. 3x what the manufacturer includes out of the box. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #44

Gun nuts will see the fact Mr.Bill Oct 2017 #11

Slide Fire makes the bump stocks Marthe48 Oct 2017 #17

SlideFire marketing to children riverwalker Oct 2017 #67

Shameful Marthe48 Oct 2017 #68

Thanks angka Just Yakov Oct 2017 #27

"Magpul are now criminals." For making a legal product? EX500rider Oct 2017 #55

They make nothing but killing items. Just Yakov Oct 2017 #56

There are a lot of companies that make "nothing but killing items"... jmowreader Oct 2017 #57

Magazines don't kill anybody, bullets do. EX500rider Oct 2017 #61

There are people Turbineguy Oct 2017 #29

Didn't I read tiptonic Oct 2017 #30

Common for the NRA... paleotn Oct 2017 #32

They obey the local laws hack89 Oct 2017 #34

Scary plastic.. Baconator Oct 2017 #38

The pic shows stacks of what I believe are Surefires. ileus Oct 2017 #42

Yup. 100 rds a mag. Adrahil Oct 2017 #45

Yeah I've always wanted a 60 but I'm too cheap to buy one. ileus Oct 2017 #54

Wasn't he pretty well off? Millionaire or something? xor Oct 2017 #58

Yeah, and he spent it on this stuff. Adrahil Oct 2017 #59

The US Army just ordered 12,500 Magpul PMAG magazines Not Ruth Oct 2017 #52

We were so proud of Colorado Democrats locks Oct 2017 #60

"Magpul's guns are made to kill.." I guess they would be if they actually made guns... EX500rider Oct 2017 #65

Bunch of hypocrites hack89 Oct 2017 #70

The PCLAA riverwalker Oct 2017 #64

The 2nd... Snackshack Oct 2017 #76

The 2A is irrelevent to the discussion on magazine size hack89 Oct 2017 #77

Correct. Snackshack Oct 2017 #79

Lack of gun control is due to lack of wide and deep public support hack89 Oct 2017 #80

I agree. Snackshack Oct 2017 #81