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Ninth Circuit lets crime victims sue gun makers.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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A suit by victims that targets the marketing practices of gun manufacturers and distributors can proceed, the Ninth Circuit has ruled.

"The allegations here that the defendants created an illegal secondary firearms market that was intentionally directed at supplying guns to prohibited gun purchasers ... are more than sufficient to raise a factual question as to whether the defendants owed the plaintiffs a duty of care and whether the defendants breached that duty." (Ileto v. Glock, 349 F.3d 1191 (9th Cir. 2003).)

Plaintiff attorney Peter Nordberg of Philadelphia said the ruling found an important middle ground: "To dismiss the claims would have been to hold that here was no conceivable set of facts on...

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