Thursday, March 03, 2005

Protection of Firearm Manufacturers

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Now, onto protecting gun makers...

Again, in the latest session of Congress, there is proposed legislation in both the United States House of Representatives as well as the United States Senate to protect firearm manufacturers from being sued out of existence for the illegal, uncivil and immoral acts of violent criminals.

In the United States Senate, the Bill Number is S. 397 and in the United States House of Representatives, the house resolution number is H.R. 800 both entitled The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. Go read the bills here http://thomas.loc.gov/.

The half-witted and muddle-headed trend of holding firearm manufacturers responsible for criminal acts committed with their lawfully produced and non-defective products is very disturbing on so many fronts.

The world's gun makers are concerned about gun safety. If you have purchased a firearm lately, you would find that there are many references to gun safety information and pertinent warnings included with a new firearm.

The vast majority of firearm manufacturing firms are small family-owned companies of usually less than 350 employees. Allowing individuals, cities and even state's to sue those small family owned companies will end the lawful production of firearms outright, or it will make it so expensive to buy a firearm that you'll need a six figure income to legally obtain one.

These inane and ill-conceived lawsuits are more about ending the firearm manufacturing business and less about the misguided effort to fight acts of violent crime. These lawsuits must come to an end. Not only because they're wrong-headed and downright stupid, but they're making the next gun I want to purchase so very expensive. :-)

The firearm manufacturing industry is already the most highly regulated industry in the world, short of those who produce nuclear energy. They only sell their legally manufactured and constitutionally protected products to federally licensed and highly regulated wholesalers, who then sell to highly regulated Federal Firearm License (FFL) holders. Gun makers do not sell their products to criminals.

If you want to find out where criminals are obtaining the firearms they use to commit crime with, then please see my blog titled "Felon-Focused" gun control. In short, criminals do not lawfully purchase firearms at retail outlets. Felons have been outlawed from owning guns since the Gun Control Act of 1968.

The radical experiment of the Founding Fathers of self-government and complete human freedom was a resounding success. With the amount of freedom that the founding documents guarantee us, we must have an equal amount of personal responsibility and moral and religious restraint that goes along with it.

Efforts such as holding gun makers accountable for the uncivil and immoral use of their products completely throws out the notion of personal responsibility, that is so central and essential to a free people.

The very concept of holding a manufacturer responsible for the illegal use of their products is witless, inane and senseless. Using the same misguided logic, we would be able to sue a drug maker for an overdose, a baseball bat maker for a beating or a cutlery manufacturer for a stabbing. The logic simply escapes me... Aren't our elected officials supposed to have some semblance of intelligence and common sense?

In the last legislative session of Congress, with the support of ousted Democrat leader Tom Daschle, anti-Second Amendment Democrats attached so many anti-gun amendments to this common sense legislation that even the staunchest Second Amendment supporter wouldn't vote for it. This time, we're watching the Democrats very closely.

Please contact your U.S. Senators and your U.S. House Representative and ask them to co-sponsor or at least support S. 397 and H.R. 800. Our nation's gun makers deserve the common sense protection against frivolous lawsuits contained in this bill.

Now that you've read my blog on this issue, go tell your two United States Senators and your United States House Representative how you feel about these inane and outright dangerous lawsuits. From the Senate and House homepages, you can easily contact those who represent you in our legislative branch of government. Remember that we are their employers and we tell them what to do in our stead. Although I know a couple of Senators from Massachusetts and New York who might disagree with that statement.

Remember to be polite, but firm and use the Bill Numbers and Title in the text above.

United States Senate
United States House of Representatives

Marc Richardson
Owner and Founder
www.SaveTheGuns.com

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