Appeals panel reinstates suits against gun makers

[dgibson]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>San Francisco-AP -- In a decision that could jump-start a gun debate on Capitol Hill, a federal appeals court has reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against the gun industry.

A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based Ninth U-S Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a case that was tossed out in 2001. It had been filed against gun manufacturers and distributors whose weapons were used by a white supremacist who wounded three children at a Jewish day care and killed a postal worker. Buford Furrow said he intended to send a "wake-up call to America to kill Jews."

Survivors claim weapons companies made more firearms than legal purchasers could buy and knowingly facilitated an underground illegal gun market.

The House has already passed a bill that protects the gun industry from such suits and President Bush has said he would sign it -- but Senate Democrats have threatened to filibuster.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>MY OPINION: Oh, gee, the 9th ruled contrary to their peers on an issue. Big surprise there.

And the Democrats in the Senate are threatening a filibuster...another big surprise.

They all act like a bunch of petty children.

 

[cjcj]

Just execute Bufford, and then tell the 9th circus to shut the F$%%ck up!

 

[JoseCuervo]

CJ,

We need the 9th Circuit to help us get the Dams breached on the Lower Snake River. Remember, that is our highest Priority in Sportsman's Issues.

 

[feclnogn]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> We need the 9th Circuit to help us get the Dams breached on the Lower Snake River. Remember, that is our highest Priority in Sportsman's Issues. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

This is the most amazing statement I have ever seen on any hunting board anywhere on the net.

What you are basically saying is that we need these anti capitalist socailist pinko judges to further your eviro pipe dream of having dams breached even if it means that gun makers are forced out of business? If that is the case Sportsmens issues will become an obsolete forum and should be retitled sportsmens memories.

I surely hope you are being sarcastic, I have not posted here in a while so don't know if you are serious, I hope not. Now if ithaca had posted this statment.....

S. Fecl

 

[1_pointer]

FECLNOGN! Welcome back! Stay around, it gets more interesting than that at times. How's the gerbil cannon?

 

[cjcj]

Gunner was just kidding! He know the #1 issue in sportsmans issues is "illegals" trashing the border and ruining our country.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Why is acceptable for me to have a "Sportsman's Memory" of catching Wild Salmon and Steelhead in Idaho, and for some reason we must all rally around and maintain the right for kids to say the pledge of allegience in school and allow nickel-and-dime gunmakers to sell $75 .25's at every store in Phoenix???

I will gladly sacrifice the Pledge and the Disposable guns for the Right to catch Wild Salmon and Steelhead in Idaho. The last time I looked, catching fish was considered a SPORTING activity. Saying the Pledge or Holding Up liquour stores in Phoenix is not a Sporting Activity....

 

[Calif. Hunter]

Huh? When did it become one or the other? We all know that the 9th Circuit is the most over-turned court in the nation. Almost any ruling they make is suspect.

 

[feclnogn]

Gun rights are not disposable based on the cost of the gun one owns. The antis who are pushing these suits are not singling out $75 guns. Ruger could very well be one that is sued so if they were to lose and forced to close down that would be a good thing in your little world??? How about Beretta? S&W, TC Colt?????? Your logic escapes me.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Cali,

I don't know if we have to have "one vs. the other", but I would think in Sportsmans Issues, we should be concerned with getting more Wild Salmon and Steelhead into the Rivers of Idaho.

As someone who spends one or two days a year outside

, I think I can attest that it is an important Sportsmans Issue. I have a hard time thinking that "anti capitalist socailist pinko judges" is a Sportsmans Issue.

I guess I don't understand the logic of someone who would come onto a Hunting/Fishing forum, and dismiss the serious battles to provide Fishing (and hunting) as an "enviro pipe dream".

As for the 9th circuit, yes, they are Overturned more than average. The last numbers I saw had them overturned 71% vs 63% for the rest of the circuit courts. But, keep in mind, the Supreme Court will not hear a case, unless 4 Justices think it MIGHT be overturned, so we should expect greater than 50% to be overturned.

And additionally, as the 9th Circuit is home to many cutting-edge technologies and ideas, it is perhaps expected for it to be overturned, at a bit higher rate than other areas of the country. California kind of leads the nation in lawsuits of all kinds...

Fecal,
I am probably ok without Ruger. I am thinking of another Remington 700SS, and maybe a Browning 1885.

 

[JoseCuervo]

Troy,

The cool thing about Salmon and Steelhead, is that they will come to you, you don't have to go to them. If we can breach the Lower Snake dams, and then find passage around the Hells Canyon complex, I would have Wild Salmon and Steelhead within 10 miles of my house, on the way to some of the best Mule Deer country in Idaho (and the West, for that matter). So I am guessing I am not going to move to the Salmon, I will just work to get the Salmon to move closer to me, where they once lived in the Marsing Reach of the Snake. Kind of a "homecoming" type thing...

And, are you really a "Fisherman", if there are no Fish to catch???? What good is the Right To Fish, if the Salmon and Steelhead are all extinct? Same goes for hunting, who gives a flyin' flip that you can buy guns at gunshows without a background check, if there isn't anything running around on our public lands with 6x6 antlers?

I am not sure what this topic is about, now. Is it about the 9th Circuit, and their biasis, make-up, and decisions, or is it about Sportsmans Issues and topics like discussing solutions for Salmon and Steelhead IS an appropriate topic, while worries about "these anti capitalist socailist pinko judges" is a ridiculous topic for a Hunting Forum.

 

[dgibson]

Gunner, I don't remember seeing the part where it said "Sportsman's Issues as Approved By ElkGunner."

You feel free to go smooch the hineys of the 9th if that's what it takes to get your favorite project accomplished. If you think that your desire to keep them happy implies some sort of need for me to avoid criticism of their politics, you're mistaken. Furthermore, I don't believe you're truly so foolish as to think these lawsuits are about cheap pocket pistols and liquor stores.

 

[Ten Bears]

GRINNER, I always knew you'd sell out your country(men) in your order to achieve your own agenda(s). Way to go ARNOLD.

 

[Troy Jones]

Elkgunner, why are you trying to turn Idaho into California so hard. Why don't you just move to California and fish for salmon in Alaska. It would be alot easier. Never mind, it's obvious that Cal has already come to you, along with Colorado, Western Wyoming and Western Montana. Hell, the Californians are starting to take over the Black Hills here in South Dakota. Just another hermetically sealed playground for the rich anti-everything. Better get in all the hunting and fishing you can, another 30 years and it will be a thing of the past. Better sell your guns before they are confiscated by the government too.