From the Jan. 13 issue of the Indianapolis Star:
A nearly decade-old lawsuit seeking to hold gun makers responsible for the city of Gary’s rampant crime received a green light Monday to head to trial.
The Indiana Supreme Court declined to review a lower court ruling, ending the second round of appeals since the case was filed in 1999. Gary’s suit alleges that 16 gun makers, including Smith & Wesson and Beretta, and six Northern Indiana gun dealers sold handguns they knew would get into the hands of criminals barred from owning them.
The court’s order let stand an October 2007 Indiana Court of Appeals ruling that the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act didn’t bar the suit from proceeding. Congress approved the measure in 2005 to provide some immunity to the firearms industry from such suits.
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