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Kansas City sued gun dealers and a manufacturer

Posted by David Hardy · 8 January 2020 06:16 PM

The Wall Street Journal has the story. More detail here. I wonder at some aspects of it. (1) How does a city have standing to sue? Does it expect to be awarded damages which belong, if to anyone, to the persons who were damaged? (2) The manufacturer is brought in on the theory that it knew the local seller was not a licensed dealer. As I recall, to ship to a dealer you have to have a copy of his FFL on file, so I doubt that. And if their whole case is based on a false claim that they knew or had reason to know was false, there'd be some risk of Rule 11 sanctions. (3) If they're talking events that go back to 2013, a lot of them are going to be outside the statute of limitations (which in most places is two years). Of course, (4) if the object was to get publicity, win or lose, the above may be unimportant.

3 Comments | Leave a comment

H | January 9, 2020 4:37 PM | Reply

Our two violent urban cities, beneficiaries of the Ferguson (Missouri) Effect which was coined by the police chief of St. Louis, are really pushing gun control, and getting a receptive audience from our unelected governor, and the new soft on crime Speaker of the House. The legislature in general has been changing from pro-gun to neutral at best in the last four years.

This could be a part of it, they're certainly feeling their oats as the Democratic party has gotten radical on gun grabbing.

Fyooz | January 9, 2020 11:19 PM | Reply

H,

start declaring Sanctuaries.

Brad | January 10, 2020 10:21 AM | Reply

Notice that one of the gun retailers being sued by Kansas, CR Sales, is the business which exposed the gun-runner in the first place!

Yep. No good deed goes unpunished...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The man credited with blowing open an investigation into a Kansas City, Missouri firefighter now accused of selling guns to felons shared his story with FOX4. Charlie Rice explained why he decided to call the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms when he became suspicious of what he thought was really happening.

Police say former KCFD firefighter James Samuels had a side job as a gun trafficker, and it was a responsible gun store owner who tipped them off.

"I had a little role in it," Rice told FOX4's Shannon O'Brien.

He called the ATF about Samuels' suspicious activity and that started the ball rolling.

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