Latest Gun Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Gun Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Virginia Senate Committee Advances Gun Bills After School Shootings
Jan 25 2023 // A Democrat-led Virginia Senate panel voted Monday to advance a range of gun control bills, including legislation meant to address recent campus shootings at the University of Virginia and a Newport News elementary...
Son Seeks $50M in California Suit for Dad’s Death From Stun Gun
Jan 24 2023 // Lawyers for the 5-year-old son of a man who died after repeatedly being shocked by Los Angeles police with a stun gun following a traffic collision filed a $50 million claim Friday for damages against the city. The legal...
California County Paying $12M in Beating and Stun Gun Death
Jan 23 2023 // San Diego County will pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of a man who died after he was beaten, shocked with a stun gun and hogtied by sheriff’s deputies in 2015. The settlement approved by a judge...
Florida Supreme Court Upholds Law That Bans Gun Restrictions
Jan 23 2023 // Florida lawmakers can fine local government officials who attempt to restrict gun and ammunition sales under a state law upheld by the state Supreme Court on Thursday. Former Democratic Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried...
Supreme Court Rejects Gun Retailers’ Objection to New York Regulations
Jan 19 2023 // The US Supreme Court refused to block new safety and record-keeping requirements that apply to New York gun retailers, letting the provisions stay in effect while a legal fight goes forward. The justices, without...
Guns Are Focus of Virginia Annual Lobbying Day
Jan 18 2023 // Gun-control and gun-rights proponents rallied Monday at the Virginia Capitol during an annual day of advocacy, as lawmakers from both parties offered a tempered assessment about what’s possible on the issue during...
Supreme Court Allows New York’s Revised Gun Carry Law… for Now
Jan 11 2023 // The U.S. Supreme Court today allowed New York’s new gun carry law to remain in effect as legal challenges to the statute continue. In denying plaintiffs’ bid to vacate a Second Circuit Court of Appeal’s...
Judge Puts New Jersey’s Stricter Gun Carry Law on Hold
Jan 11 2023 // Suggesting that New Jersey’s recent concealed carry law infringes on the public’s Second Amendment rights, a federal judge on Monday put a temporary hold on the legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court...
Nation’s First Gun-Insurance Mandates Take Effect. Will They Hold up in Court?
Jan 3 2023 // As the calendar flips to 2023, among the scores of new laws taking effect are a pair of legislative mandates that would, for the first time anywhere in the country, require firearms owners to obtain and maintain liability...
New Jersey Gov. Murphy Signs Gun Carry Bill
Dec 27 2022 // New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Thursday signed an overhaul to the rules to get a firearm carry permit, legislation that was spurred by this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights. “While we are...
New Jersey Lawmakers Pass Gun Carry Bill With Insurance Mandate
Dec 21 2022 // New Jersey lawmakers gave final approval Monday to legislation overhauling rules to get a firearm carry permit after this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanded gun rights. The Democrat-led Senate passed the...
Judge Halting Provision Making California Gun Lawsuits Costlier
Dec 19 2022 // A federal judge said he will block a provision in a new California law to take effect next year that gun advocates argued was designed to hinder anyone from challenging the state’s famously restrictive gun laws. U.S....
Appeals Court Allows New York to Keep Enforcing New Gun Law
Dec 12 2022 // A federal appeals court panel said New York can continue enforcing a new state law banning guns from “sensitive” places like parks and theaters while the judges consider a legal challenge. The temporary stay...
Gunmaker Sig Sauer Faces Suit by Police, Veterans, Others Vowing Gun Goes Off by Itself
Dec 5 2022 // Police and federal law enforcement officers are among 20 people from multiple states saying they were wounded by a popular type of Sig Sauer pistol, the latest lawsuit alleging that the gun is susceptible to going off...
Report Shows California Gun Data Breach Was Unintentional
Dec 2 2022 // California’s Department of Justice mistakenly posted the names, addresses and birthdays of nearly 200,000 gun owners on the internet because officials didn’t follow policies or understand how to operate their...
Iowa Voters Add Gun Rights to Constitution
Nov 10 2022 // DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Iowans voted Tuesday to add a right to keep and bear arms into the state constitution, a move that will make it more difficult to pass gun restrictions and easier to strike down existing gun...
Cheerleading Company Denies Abuse Involvement, Hires Big Gun Attorney
Nov 7 2022 // The American cheerleading company behind the sport’s top uniforms, camps and competitions is vehemently denying accusations that the enterprise helped facilitate alleged sexual abuse at gyms across the Southeast...
Colorado Man Gets $7M Settlement in Stun Gun Case
Nov 4 2022 // The Colorado city of Idaho Springs said it has agreed to pay $7 million to a 75-year-old man who said an officer used a stun gun on him without warning and dragged him from his apartment after a dispute with a neighbor,...
New Jersey Lawmakers Advance Bill Limiting Gun Carry, Requiring Liability Insurance
Nov 1 2022 // A New Jersey legislative committee voted to require liability insurance for gun owners and restrict where they could carry their weapons, moving what would be some of the strictest US firearms limits closer to becoming...
New Jersey Eyes Gun Carry Legislation Including Insurance Requirement
Oct 14 2022 // New Jersey Democrats say they are going to take a shot at passing new gun legislation similar to New York’s even thought that state’s law is facing a court challenge. Assembly Speaker Craig J. Coughlin and...
