Limited liability for gun manufacturers could be challenged in Congress

MACON, Ill. (WAND) – The next battleground over gun rights may be in the courtroom as states and lawyers look for ways to sue gun manufacturers.

California has finalized a new law which will allow individuals, the state and local governments to sue gun manufacturers. The move comes even though federal law provides protections for those manufacturers from lawsuits.

“Dangerous car? The manufacturer can be sued,” said Senator Dick Durbin on the floor of the U.S. Senate. “If a gun manufacturer makes a gun that is inherently dangerous, negligently manufactured, it is dangerous in and of itself, the gun industry has bought immunity in the law at the federal level.”

Senator Durbin is looking to possibly end that immunity saying the issue will be brought up in the Senate Judiciary Committee which he chairs.