{"id":1916896,"date":"2023-04-20T00:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-lawmakers-pass-bill-protecting-firearms-industry-from-lawsuits-over-crimes-involving-guns\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T00:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T04:26:24","slug":"tennessee-lawmakers-pass-bill-protecting-firearms-industry-from-lawsuits-over-crimes-involving-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-lawmakers-pass-bill-protecting-firearms-industry-from-lawsuits-over-crimes-involving-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Bill Protecting Firearms Industry From Lawsuits Over Crimes Involving Guns"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftennessee-lawmakers-pass-bill-protecting-firearms-industry-from-lawsuits-over-crimes-involving-guns%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=1916896&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0419\/0826dbd6-f8f8-4791-8863-0287e51808aa\/audio.mp3?length=3888909&#038;duration=324\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Tennessee state Senate voted on Tuesday in favor of a bill that would protect gun and ammunition manufacturers and sellers from civil liability when their products are used to commit crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-controlled Tennessee Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/wapp.capitol.tn.gov\/apps\/BillInfo\/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB0822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed<\/a> HB 1189 by a vote of 19 to 9 on Tuesday, after the Republican-controlled House voted 71-24 in favor of the bill on March 6. The legislation now goes to Republican Gov. Bill Lee\u2019s desk for final passage.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation states a firearms industry dealer, manufacturer, or seller cannot be held liable in a civil lawsuit in the state unless they accompanied a person in committing the underlying crime for which the lawsuit was brought or unless they sold a firearm product that was defective.<\/p>\n<p>The law states that if a defective firearm product discharges in the course of a voluntary criminal offense, then that voluntary act must be considered the sole proximate cause of the property damage, injury, or death for which civil liability arises, thus excluding the firearm industry member from liability in that case.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, the U.S. Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which generally protects firearm industry members from civil liability over the criminal misuse of their products. Some states and localities have explored ways in which firearm industry members can be held liable outside the existing protections of the PLCAA.<\/p>\n<p>California <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntd.com\/california-governor-signs-bill-allowing-victims-to-sue-gun-makers_808054.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed legislation last year<\/a> that allows victims of violence involving guns or the state\u2019s attorney general to sue firearm industry members if they can establish that a firearm product was \u201cabnormally dangerous.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/CA\/text\/AB1594\/id\/2601230#:~:text=(1)%20A%20firearm%2Drelated,cause%20injury%20or%20lethal%20harm.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law<\/a> states a firearm product qualifies as \u201cabnormally dangerous\u201d if it is \u201cmost suitable for assaultive purposes instead of lawful self-defense, hunting, or other legitimate sport and recreational activities\u201d or if it is designed, sold, or marketed in a manner that is targeted \u201cat minors or other individuals who are legally prohibited from accessing firearms\u201d or \u201cforeseeably promotes conversion\u201d into an illegal firearm product.<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey passed a similar bill in 2022 that allows the state attorney general to pursue civil cases against members of the gun industry if the state determines that their sales or marketing practices are a public nuisance. A federal judge recently granted a preliminary injunction preventing the state of New Jersey from pursuing civil litigation against firearms industry members amid a lawsuit challenging the state\u2019s law.<\/p>\n<p>While some states have looked for avenues to bring civil liability against firearms industry members, Republican Tennessee lawmakers introduced HB 1189 and an identical Senate version of the legislation, SB 822, in January in a move that adds to the civil liability protections of the PLCAA.<\/p>\n<p>HB 1189\u2019s passage in the Tennessee Senate also comes after a high-profile shooting incident in which a suspect entered a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, and killed three children and three adults on March 27. Authorities have identified the suspect in that shooting incident as a transgender individual.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Nashville school shooting, lawmakers <a href=\"https:\/\/wapp.capitol.tn.gov\/apps\/BillInfo\/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB0322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed<\/a> legislation expanding school se<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Tennessee state Senate voted on Tuesday in favor of a bill that would protect gun and ammunition manufacturers and sellers from civil liability when their products are used to commit crimes. The Republican-controlled Tennessee Senate passed HB 1189 by a vote of 19 to 9 on Tuesday, after the Republican-controlled House voted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1916897,"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":[543],"tags":[5999,9473,4204,6984,13749,3673,7976,3936,7042,6651],"class_list":["post-1916896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-crimes","tag-firearms","tag-guns","tag-industry","tag-involving","tag-lawmakers","tag-lawsuits","tag-pass","tag-protecting","tag-tennessee"],"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\/1916896","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\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}