{"id":1786993,"date":"2022-12-26T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T11:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786993"},"modified":"2022-12-26T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T15:17:33","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-suing-big-guns-and-big-oil-is-just-cynical-political-posturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-suing-big-guns-and-big-oil-is-just-cynical-political-posturing\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: Suing Big Guns and Big Oil Is Just Cynical Political Posturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-post-editorial-board-suing-big-guns-and-big-oil-is-just-cynical-political-posturing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786993&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Buffalo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/buffalo-announces-first-kind-lawsuit-gun-manufacturers\">Mayor Byron Brown announced<\/a> last week that the Queen City had filed a \u201cfirst of its kind\u201d lawsuit targeting and blaming firearms manufacturers for the rising gun violence there. It\u2019s not remotely the first, despite invoking a new \u201cpublic nuisance\u201d state law, and it\u2019ll fail: Suits against Big Guns over crime, like those targeting Big Oil over climate, are just lawyer-enriching, and posturing-pol-promoting, bunk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe City of Buffalo is not going to let these gun industry members continue to flood our city with illegally possessed guns. We must hold them accountable,\u201d Brown declared of the case against such gunmakers as Beretta, Smith &#038; Wesson, etc., as well as distributors and local gun shops \u2014 plus, ghost-gun retailers like Polymer 80.<\/p>\n<p><em>Maybe<\/em> there\u2019s a case against the ghost-gun crew, but all the other targets have weathered similar litigation before, starting in the \u201990s. As long as the defendants obey the laws on serial numbers, background checks and so on, they\u2019re not liable for third parties\u2019 illegal use of their products. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1404060723.jpg\"><\/a>The lawsuit blames gun manufacturers for the high number of illegal guns in Buffalo. Corbis via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p>Blame <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/28\/buffalo-shooter-payton-gendron-pleads-guilty-to-grocery-store-massacre\/\">racist gunman Payton Gendron<\/a>, not the gun industry, for the Tops Supermarket massacre. Local thugs and gangbangers are responsible for the terrible street violence in Buffalo and urban areas across New York.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, like many pols before him, is trying to dodge his real duty. Lawyers are eyeing fees, or in some cases just hoping friendly judges will ignore the law to help them shut down the \u201cevil\u201d industry.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s much the same with litigation pretending that Big Oil has deceived the public about carbon fuels and climate change. Suit after suit has failed because the evidence just isn\u2019t there \u2014 which hasn\u2019t stopped New Jersey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown announced last week that the Queen City had filed a \u201cfirst of its kind\u201d lawsuit targeting and blaming firearms manufacturers for the rising gun violence there. It\u2019s not remotely the first, despite invoking a new \u201cpublic nuisance\u201d state law, and it\u2019ll fail: Suits against Big Guns over crime, like those targeting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[9027,6962,10847,3664,5458,11855,6616,4204,3719,7393,3753,4899,11854,3819,11582],"class_list":["post-1786993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-big","tag-the","tag-and","tag-board","tag-bongino","tag-cynical","tag-editorial","tag-guns","tag-just","tag-oil","tag-political","tag-post","tag-posturing","tag-report","tag-suing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}