Democrats are weaponizing the justice system to advance their extreme political agenda.
Now they’re taking dead aim at one cherished constitutional right.
And a blue state handed lawyers one weapon to take a wrecking ball to the Constitution.
Maryland passes bill to allow state to sue gunmakers
Democrat lawmakers in Maryland are leading an all-out assault on the Second Amendment in the state.
The anti-gun State Legislature has passed a slew of gun control measures in reaction to the Supreme Court’s landmark New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen in 2022 that shut down some of the most restrictive state laws against the Second Amendment.
Anti-gunners in Maryland are facing a Constitutional roadblock to their ambitious plans to restrict the right to keep and bear arms.
That’s why they launched a backdoor scheme to come after gunmakers directly.
Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) signed House Bill 947, the Gun Industry Accountability Act, into law.
The bill allows the Maryland Attorney General and attorneys for counties and the City of Baltimore to sue gunmakers and firearms dealers if products they sell, distribute, manufacture, import, or market are used to harm the public.
Firearms manufacturers are protected from most lawsuits for the misuse of their products by the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).
Automakers aren’t held liable when their vehicles are involved in an accident that’s the driver’s fault.
Gun control activists have been trying to work around the PLCAA at the state level and make gunmakers legally liable for their weapons being used in crimes.
The goal is to subvert the Second Amendment by bankrupting gunmakers through lawsuits or driving them out of a state.
Gunmakers can be sued for actions that are out of their control
Giffords gun control group legal director David Pucino explained how the law would target gunmakers.
“There was a company that was selling ghost guns, not in New Jersey, but in Pennsylvania, knowing very well that those guns were going to be immediately trafficked across the border into New Jersey and then used in crime in New Jersey,” Pucino told WYPR.
That company could face a crippling lawsuit under Maryland’s new law.
But a gunmaker would have no idea of their customers’ intentions or if they would transfer their products across state lines.
Gunmakers and firearms dealers can take every precaution and follow the letter of the law and they still can get sued.
Maryland Shall Issue President Mark Pennak said that the new law was a violation of the PLCAA.
“You see some cases being brought where the allegation is that the retailer should have known and should have trained his employees to recognize that this particular purchase, although passing a background check and otherwise was a legal purchase, we should have known that this person was going to use the firearm for illegal purpose,” Pennak asserted. “That’s insane. No one can possibly abide by that.”
Pennak’s organization is going to file a lawsuit against the law.
Maryland Democrats are trying to deny residents their Second Amendment rights by driving gunmakers out of their state.
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