Latest Gun Liability Headlines
All the headlines from our Gun Liability Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Missouri Man Pleads Guilty in Arson, Insurance Fraud Scheme
Feb 2 2022 // A Kansas City-area man has pleaded guilty to an arson and insurance fraud scheme that allegedly destroyed three houses from 2013 to 2019. Wandale J. Fulton, 40, was accused of conspiring with six others to buy houses,...
13 States Agree U.S. Law Does Not Bar Mexico’s $10B Suit Against U.S. Gun Makers
Feb 1 2022 // Thirteen U.S. states and two Latin America and Caribbean nations on Monday threw their support behind a lawsuit from Mexico that accuses several major U.S. gun makers of facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug...
Gun Rights Group Files Suit Against California City’s Liability Insurance Law
Jan 28 2022 // A gun rights group and a gun owner have filed a lawsuit against a California city for a newly passed ordinance requiring citizens to obtain firearm liability insurance and pay an annual fee. The National Association for...
California City Votes to Require Gun Liability Insurance
Jan 26 2022 // The city council in San Jose, California, voted on Tuesday to become the nation’s first city to require gun owners to purchase insurance coverage. Funds from an accompanying annual fee of $25 will go toward reducing...
Smart Guns Finally Arriving in U.S., Seeking to Shake Up Firearms Market: Reuters
Jan 12 2022 // Personalized smart guns, which can be fired only by verified users, may finally become available to U.S. consumers after two decades of questions about reliability and concerns they will usher in a new wave of government...
California Bill Would Make it Easier to Sue Gun-Makers
Jan 7 2022 // Some Democratic California lawmakers want to make it easier for people to sue gun companies for liability in shootings that cause injuries or deaths, a move advocates said Tuesday is aimed at getting around a U.S. law that...
Firms Sue to Overturn New York Law Allowing Lawsuits Against Gun Industry
Dec 17 2021 // A group of gun manufacturers, distributors and retailers on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a New York law that allows the state and people affected by gun violence to sue the industry. The...
Rochester Mayor Declares Emergency Amid Gun Violence Spike
Nov 16 2021 // Police in Rochester, New York, are investigating a string of fatal shootings that came just hours after Mayor Lovely Warren declared a local state of emergency to combat rising gun violence. The recent killings, including...
Inside the New Mexico Movie Set Where Baldwin’s Gun Fired
Oct 29 2021 // Light from a high afternoon sun slanted through the tall windows of the weathered wooden church, catching on the plank floorboards and illuminating the stained glass. Outside, the arid ground of the northern New Mexico...
On Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Movie Set and Others, Union Guidance Is Key to Gun Safety
Oct 24 2021 // Safety standards developed by film studios and labor unions are the primary protection for actors and film crews when a scene calls for using prop guns. The industry-wide guidance is clear: “Blanks can kill. Treat...
NRA Canceling Annual Meeting in Texas Because of COVID
Aug 26 2021 // The National Rifle Association announced it has canceled its annual meeting, which had been set to be held next month in Houston, due to concerns over COVID-19. The NRA’s meeting had been set for Sept. 3 through...
Deputies Shot in Ambush File Lawsuit in California Against ‘Ghost Gun’ Kit Maker
Aug 11 2021 // Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies badly wounded in an ambush shooting last year sued a Nevada company for making the parts for a “ghost gun” used in the attack. The lawsuit alleges Polymer80 Inc....
Mexico Seeks $10 Billion in Damages in Liability Suit Against U.S. Gun Makers
Aug 4 2021 // Mexico sued several gun makers in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday, accusing them of reckless business practices that supply what it called a “torrent” of illegal arms to violent Mexican drug cartels, leading...
Gun Maker Offers $33M to Settle Suit by Sandy Hook Families
Jul 30 2021 // The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims’ families nearly $33 million to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the...
California City is Requiring Gun Owners to Carry Liability Insurance
Jul 1 2021 // San Jose, Calif., officials have passed a new law that requires gun owners to carry liability insurance and pay a fee to cover taxpayers’ costs associated with gun violence. The law is the first in the U.S. and was...
Texas Supreme Court: Academy Can’t Be Sued for Selling Gun Used in Texas Mass Shooting
Jun 25 2021 // The man who gunned down 26 people at a Sutherland Springs church in Texas’ deadliest ever mass shooting should not have been able to buy the assault style weapon he used, but the store that sold it to him can’t...
New York Could Try to Sue Gun Manufacturers Under Bill
Jun 10 2021 // New York’s attorney general could sue gun manufacturers under certain scenarios under a bill that passed the state Senate and Assembly on Tuesday as lawmakers continued wrapping up this year’s legislative...
NRA Drops Countersuit, Will Fight New York Attorney General in State Court
Jun 8 2021 // The National Rifle Association has dropped a lawsuit accusing New York’s attorney general of suing the gun rights group last year out of political hostility, opting to challenge her through counterclaims in the same...
Judge Wants NRA to Name Insurance Witnesses in Claims Against New York
Apr 30 2021 // A judge ordered the National Rifle Association to provide the names Lloyd’s of London agents or employees who the gun rights group says have information backing its claim that New York’s insurance regulator...
Indiana Gun Shop Sued for Selling Guns Used in Chicago Crimes
Apr 28 2021 // The city of Chicago has filed a lawsuit against an Indiana gun store, contending it has sold hundreds of guns to straw buyers that in turn have ended up in the hands of felons or at crime scenes in the city. The lawsuit...
