Heidi Li FeldmanJun 6, 2025
The Supreme Court is dropping some pretty awful decisions. I wrote about yesterday's regarding gun smuggling, for Slate. Just published there. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/06/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-ketanji-brown-jackson-guns.html #lawfedi #PLCAA #Mexico #FirearmsIndustry
The Worst Part of the Unanimous Supreme Court Ruling Blocking a Lawsuit Against Gunmakers

Mexico’s complaint alleged that the named firearms manufacturers and the named distributor aid and abet rogue dealers in the U.S.

Slate
Democracy LabsSep 22, 2024
What’s the difference between tainted milk and weapons of war?
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/09/22/repeal-plcaa-to-hold-gun-makers-accountable/
#PLCAA
What's the difference between tainted milk and a weapon of war?

You can sue a milk producer for bad milk. But you can't sue a gun maker for the harm their assault weapons cause!

The Democracy Labs
ThinkingSapienJun 18, 2024

Great podcast on that Uvalde mass shooting lawsuit against Activision (Call of Duty), Remington, and Instagram.

https://youtu.be/Izt8l2jwlXQ

#plcaa #Uvalde #lawsuits #DanielDefense

A Novel Legal Strategy for Mass Shooting Victims’ Families

YouTube
Deborah Rose βŒπŸ‘‘Feb 15, 2024

Frequently Asked Questions About Gun Industry Immunity - Center for American Progress

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act prevents the gun industry from being held accountable for harm caused and disincentivizes the industry from ensuring consumer safety. #PLCAA
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/frequently-asked-questions-gun-industry-immunity/

Frequently Asked Questions About Gun Industry Immunity

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act prevents the gun industry from being held accountable for harm caused and disincentivizes the industry from ensuring consumer safety.

Center for American Progress
Show threadDeborah Rose βŒπŸ‘‘Feb 15, 2024
@Strandjunker George W Bush also passed #PLCAA in 2005, making gun manufacturers immune from civil lawsuits.
Deborah Rose βŒπŸ‘‘Feb 15, 2024
A federal gun industry immunity law adopted in 2005 (signed by George W. Bush) slammed courtroom doors shut on many civil claims against the gun industry. But state laws can help push back on these greedy gun corporations. It's time to change this law. #GunViolence #GunControl #PLCAA
https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/gun-industry-immunity/
Gun Industry Immunity

Universal background checks save lives from gun violence.

GIFFORDS
Heidi Li FeldmanFeb 14, 2024
The shootings in Missouri today are another clarion call: every state in the U.S. can and should enact statutes to ground civil suits against irresponsible #gun manufacturers and sellers. The gun industry is fighting these statutes in court. I explain and defend the desirability, lawfulness, and constitutionality of such statutes in this article, forthcoming in Yale Law Journal Forum. Neither #PLCAA nor the #SecondAmendment invalidate these laws. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dw3rMKXX1DlHKa9GXk1bojxSgYUxsP8r/view?usp=drivesdk #LawFedi #KansasCity
Statutes Justice Firearms preprint 2.pdf

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Heidi Li FeldmanFeb 5, 2024
Forthcoming, Yale Law Journal Forum, by me: a defense of statutes that create public nuisance and consumer protection causes of action against firearms manufacturers for failure to take reasonable measures to control the flow of guns to criminal users. Such laws qualify as predicate statutes under The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (#PLCAA). They neither implicate nor infringe the constitutional right to bear arms. Public access to preprint at https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PNxb_uofV9dzCZxQEm6VTKkZboRLNqb/view?usp=drivesdk #LawFedi #Bruen
HLF website Statutes Justice Firearms preprint .pdf

Google Docs
Heidi Li FeldmanJan 30, 2024
Now available on SSRN, prepublication draft of my forthcoming article, What It Takes to Write Statutes that Hold the Firearms Industry Accountable to Civil Justice at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4709711
#LawFedi #guns #law #justice #Bruen #PLCAA #2A
n0bodyMay 27, 2023

In the long term the US must overturn the #PLCAA and eventually the #secondAmendment, but in the meantime - as gun manufacturers are responding to demand by building more and more gun *factories* - huge civil lawsuits are an ideal way to finally make some progress on #gunControl.

Right now key to this effort is overturning state laws designed to shield gun manufacturers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/27/gun-lawsuits-manufacturer-sellers-crimes

https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/gun-industry-immunity/

Wave of lawsuits against US gun makers raises hope of end to mass shootings

Campaigners take legal route after success against big tobacco and other industries led to change

The Guardian