[angkor]

"defendants have the power to control the purposeful creation and maintenance of an illegal secondary market by oversupplying the areas around Chicago with handguns."

A startling use of imprecise terminology here.

"Power to control."

"Purposeful creation."

"Oversupplying the areas."

This one is destined for the USSC, where it will be overturned on the basis of sloppy language and sloppy reasoning.

[alancarp]

The lawsuit accused the defendants of "supplying a vast, illicit underground market in handguns in order to meet the demand for weapons of gang members and juveniles."

Obviously false on its face. Like any other legal, legitimate business entity, the gun manufacturers are in business to make money for themselves and for their stockholders. This suit and this court seems to think that the guns are routinely given away on street corners (can you imagine the sign? "Free Guns! Thugs Only!").

This court made a local, emotional decision (that's what liberals and activists do) to a legal problem that their government won't solve (another liberal hallmark). I would hope that SCOUTUS doesn't even have to see this -- that the appellate level will give it the shredding that it deserves.

[joebuck]

Couldn't victims of heart disease use this same bogus logic to sue McDonalds?

[Bommer]

"This is really a very strong vindication" of the strategy, Kairys said. "The way the manufacturers are endangering the public health and safety is that they are knowingly and intentionally supplying the criminal market. It's really that simple."

So then if someone steals a Ford Expedition and uses it in a high speed chase that kills people, couldn't one assume that since Ford knew that it could go 120 and can runover smaller cars, that Ford also knows they too are selling a deadly product that will only be used for misuse?

[Standing Wolf]

Leftists are moral and intellectual cockroaches!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In a significant victory for gun-control advocates, the Illinois Appellate Court ruled Monday that gunmakers and distributors can be sued on the grounds that their products create a public nuisance.

And the IRS is not a public nuisance?

[zog]

--and the bozos who "ruled" thusly are a full and important part of this hijacked coup-grabbed "government" we are supposed to "support". Uh huh. It's more like a big gang now, the gang members have "rights", no one else does. Lemme see a failed welfare state big brother housing project, a failed 'drug war" that drives up the prices to such an astronomical level that crime gets created, a failed "police" system that-mostly, 99.999% of the time- will sieg heil follow any order given to them without ever saying "no", leads to one of the cops getting whacked. Gee, wonder why stuff like that happens? Seems like if the cops family had a brain, they would be suing the government for the three "wrong" things this junta/government insists upon instead.

[JimRed]

...firearms manufacturers and distributors have "nurtured a climate of violence" by flooding Chicago and its suburbs with guns.

Yeah, right...they forcibly caused all those people to go to their nearest gun shop (or illegal street source) and buy a firearm, or two or three...

[Valin]

Flag.

[aomagrat]

[Liberty Ship]

If it WOULD SAVE JUST ONE LIFE, perhaps the State of Illinois should make the first move to get these "public nuisances" off the streets by demanding that all state, county, and municipal employees and LEO's to turn in their firearms for destruction. Unless they think that they have a legitimate purpose, of course.