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The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) has long protected the gun industry from abusive lawsuits that the anti-gun Left would file if they could. No gunmaker can be sued for mass shootings or anything where their products were unknowingly and unwillingly used in a crime. It must be something serious that knowingly selling to FFLs that did business with straw purchasers or worse, sold guns with issues, like defective safeties, and did nothing about it.
These are legitimate legal points from which to file a lawsuit. Suing a gun maker simply because you hate the Second Amendment isn’t in the cards. The anti-gun Left knows this. They know the PLCAA is probably here to stay barring some seismic shift in elections. They still rail against it and call for its repeal. Joe Biden has joined that chorus now. So, how will they get around it? They’re going the consumer protection route. Yes, it’s a ruse – but don’t roll your
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Copyright 2021, Virginia Mercury He’s ultra-rich, enjoys tubing and shotguns and, until a few months ago, was virtually unknown in Virginia political circles. Glenn Youngkin emerged as the Virginia GOP’s nominee for governor on Monday after a relatively drama-free day of vote counting that saw the 54-year-old former CEO of the Carlyle Group maintain a comfortable lead through successive rounds of vote counting in the ranked-choice contest. “I am prepared to lead, excited to serve and profoundly humbled by the trust the people have placed in me,” Youngkin wrote in a tweet. “Virginians have made it clear that they are ready for a political outsider with proven business experience to bring real change in Richmond.”