In an anti-gun lawsuit considered a test case for litigation pending in several other major cities, a Brooklyn federal court jury yesterday found 15 gun manufacturers liable in three of seven shooting incidents because of negligent marketing and distribution of their guns....The plaintiffs, relatives of people killed in six of the shootings and one survivor who was seriously injured, contended gun manufacturers were collectively liable for the shootings even if it could not be proved which company's gun was used in each incident. Their lawyers told the 11-member jury that because the companies marketed and oversupplied gun dealers in Southern states with lax gun laws, many of the weapons ended up in the hands of criminal traffickers who resell them in places like New York, which has stricter gun laws.
2/12/99
Newsday, February 12, 1999:
