Posted on 03/02/2022 12:06:50 PM PST by Red Badger
The Associated Press fact checked President Joe Biden’s State of the Union claim that gun makers enjoy immunity from lawsuits and found it “false.”
The AP noted that Biden claim that there is a “liability shield that makes gun manufacturers the only industry in America that can’t be sued, the only one.”
After checking on the validity of Biden’s statement, the AP retorted: “That’s false. While gun manufacturers do have legal protections from being held liable for injuries caused by criminal misuse of their weapons thanks to the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, they are not exempt or immune from being sued.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi applaud as Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol House Chamber on March 1, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb – Pool/Getty Images)
They noted that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act “lays out exceptions where manufacturers or dealers can be held liable for damages their weapons cause, such as defects or damages in the design of the gun, negligence, or breach of contract or warranty regarding the purchase of a gun.”
Breitbart News pointed out:
PLCAA is very narrow in scope. It shields gun makers from lawsuits in situations where a gun, criminally used, was legally made and legally sold.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
... but vaccine manufacturers are immune from lawsuits, giving them no incentive whatsoever to ensure that their products are safe after initial approval.
the sandy hook suit was based on advertisements
Biden is a liar.
Precisely WHAT Joe Biden 'claim' isn't false?
Oh, so ‘immunity’, like those pesky “rights”, aren’t absolute eh. Wonder if there would be any push back of the 13th or 19th being abridged, infringed upon.
Indeed. We also don’t allow automakers to be sued when Muslims use their products to run down Americans at parades.
Remington just settled a lawsuit a few months ago. Why would they do that if they couldn’t be sued?
That is not the only thing he said that is false.
Biden is lying scum. You’re welcome.
I believe it was an anomaly, certain state law in CT.
Documented Biden Lie #10,789,343,777,666.
Next...........
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Glad I didn’t watch. My blood pressure wouldn’t have been able to handle it.
Just another Bidenism.
Remington was stupid to settle. They would have one. ALl they needed to do was point out in court that the gun was held by a lawful owner who was killed by her own son so that he could obtain the weapon. No other fact of the case matters. Advertising or marketing make no difference when the killer kills his own mother to get to the weapons. Ultimately, it was a money grab by those people who sue Remington and Remington decided to take it in the A$$..
Indeed.
I screamed that at the TV when Biden said it. 'Covid' 'Vaccine' makers were granted full immunity when this whole covidiocy started.
And I'm pretty sure that by the time the whole truth comes out, the 'vaccines' will have killed, or at least contributed to more premature deaths or serious bodily harm than guns have.
I am shocked and chagrined. Mortified and stupified....
He MEANT to say the “vaxxine” industry.
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