gun shop liability News

Indiana Gun Shop Sued for Selling Guns Used in Chicago Crimes

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 …

Missouri Dealer to Settle Gun-Shop Liability Case

A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father will settle in a wrongful death case, according to the attorney for the woman’s mother. Washington, D.C.-based Brady Center …

Wisconsin Gun Shop Gets Sued by 2 More Wounded Officers

A second lawsuit is set for trial against a U.S. gun shop after a jury in October found the store negligently sold a gun used to injure two Milwaukee police officers. The new case involves two different injured officers who …

Gun Shop Liability Case Being Heard by Missouri Supreme Court

A lawyer for a Missouri mother who says a gun and pawn shop should be held accountable for selling her mentally ill daughter the gun she used to kill her own father challenged a claim that state and federal law …

Wisconsin Gun Shop Ordered to Pay Millions to Injured Police Officers

A jury has ordered a gun shop to pay nearly $6 million in a lawsuit filed by two Milwaukee, Wis., police officers who were seriously wounded when shot by a gun purchased at the store. Jurors ruled that Badger Guns …

Kansas Court Remands Case of Gun Shop Liability

Firearms dealers must use the highest degree of care in preventing the sale of guns to a felon, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled. The decision comes in the appeal of a mother who filed a negligence lawsuit against the owners …

Missouri Appeals Panel Says Kansas Gun Store not Liable

A Missouri appeals panel says it agrees with a lower court ruling that said a Kansas gun store is protected from lawsuits in a 2007 fatal shooting at a Kansas City mall. The Kansas City Star reports the appeals court …