[Myrddin]

The distribution and sale of firearms requires transport across state lines. That is certainly interstate commerce. If the commerce clause is improper in this instance, then all the gun control laws based on the commerce clause are likewise illegitimate.

[balrog666]

In a nutshell, the bills provide that gun manufacturers and distributors cannot be sued for damages arising out of a gun's illegal use.

Why not extend that protection to all legally manufactured products?

[spunkets]

"There is no federal power of the kind that the House and Senate bills would institute. Quite simply, the power to control frivolous lawsuits belongs to the states."

Mr. Levy is wrong. Some local dictators, such as king daley in Chicago, are causing undue harm to businesses such as firearm makers and sellers. The commerce clause gives Congress the right to remedy that problem. Congress is simply telling Federal and State courts, that they can't userp the power delegated to Congress to regulate business operating in interstate commerce and at the same time acknowledging that criminal behavior is the responsibility of the criminal, not anyone else remotely connected to that individual.

I think the 2 bills are HR123 and S2268. They simply state fed and state courts have no right to go after innocent businesses operating in interstate commerce, because some criminal uses, or possesses their product, or a related product. Mr Levy either needs a vacation break, or a retirement.