Gunmaker Glock to be sued over mass shooting
aboard Brooklyn subway
New York Daily News,
by
Graham Rayman
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
5/31/2022 4:36:23 PM
A Brooklyn woman shot and severely wounded in a mass shooting aboard a Brooklyn N train last month will file a lawsuit Tuesday against Glock, which manufactured the 9-mm. gun used in the 33-bullet attack on straphangers. Ilene Steur, 49, was shot in the buttocks and suffered life-changing injuries during the gas mask-wearing gunman’s rampage as the rush-hour train pulled into the 36th St. station in Sunset Park. Her lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court alleges Glock—one of the world’s largest gunmakers—markets its weapons and distributes them in a way that is a “public nuisance” under state law and endangers public safety.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/31/2022 4:40:44 PM (No. 1171663)
Get in line, sweetheart. You are not the first one with that idea.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 5/31/2022 4:43:25 PM (No. 1171668)
This was the plot line of an old " Law and Order ". In the liberal world, the perpetrator is never responsible for their own actions.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rich323 5/31/2022 4:51:09 PM (No. 1171672)
The one gun law that will stop unlawful use of firearms is the immediate indictment, trial and execution of the perp. Our liberal courts and lawyers drag out the punishment for death to ten years after the crime at which point the perps don’t see the connection to murder with their execution. So they have no fear of committing the crimes. You shoot someone illegally, you hang at high noon on Friday in the town square!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/31/2022 4:53:30 PM (No. 1171673)
Uhmm...gonna need to sue the guys that made the subway car as well...the guy's that dug the ditch the subway runs in...AND the guys that built the bridge they were going across at the time...and the companies that made the steel. Don't forget he was wearing clothes from Aeropostal, nike shooes and dockers or some similar pants...no word as of yet what brand of underwear he used, but...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/31/2022 5:02:44 PM (No. 1171684)
# 4; Yes! Especially Nike, they made it possible for the perp to walk to the subway to commit his illegal gun crime!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Mass Minority 5/31/2022 5:24:36 PM (No. 1171700)
This is mostly a publicity stunt. The timing is transparent. NY State may think they can circumvent the federal law but it is not likeley. The Remington capitulation does not really play into this. Remington was sued by the Sandy Hook parents because they succesfully argued that the Call of Duty videogame promoted and "marketed" the firearm allowing a civil suit to proceed. The argument is quite the stretch, especially since the actual game of Call of Duty even though they were claimed as the marketer, was not named as a plaintiff. Remington was trying to emerge from bankruptcy and could not move forward until this tremendous liability was removed. The 73 million was an economic decision, not a seismic shift in liability law. I doubt Glock will settle.
Of course this is NY, and more importantly NY City, one of the most foul and corrupt courts in the country more attuned to politics than law so anything is possible. The federal law was enacted to preveny exactly this scenario. A legal product , produced in a regulated industry and sold and marketed in accordance with existing law cannot be held liable for that products use in any illegal activity. It is exactly analogous to suing a car maker for a drunk driving accident. The law was passed not because of Gun Lobby influence as the left likes to believe. It was passed on the urging of the courts, who were being inundated with frivolous lawsuits against gun makers/ ALL of those suits were dismissed on legal grounds but the flood of suits was clogging up the courts and impacting their ability to respond to other legal business. it was, and continues to be, a concerted strategy by the left to destroy the gun industry through lawfare since they cannot destroy it through legislation. The supreme court passed on the remington case but as an inevitable flood of these frivolous suits hit blue states enacting quasi legal workarounds to the federal law they may well take it up this time.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/31/2022 5:48:17 PM (No. 1171716)
Those pesky Glocks, loading themselves and firing randomly. They're like little puppies, aren't they? Just running around untethered and causing mischief. Its not like they were inanimate objects without a mind of their own!
/s sarcasm off
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 5/31/2022 6:05:34 PM (No. 1171734)
"shot in the buttocks and suffered life-changing injuries "
OK, then.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/31/2022 6:28:57 PM (No. 1171752)
Glock should say...
"OK, return every single glock currently in Govt service in the state of New York, including all of the military bases, that means disarming nearly 100% of your police forces.(Glock 22 is used by more police forces than all other guns) But...whatever makes you happy... we will handle the sale them all elsewhere....used.....and whatever is left(after shipping, handling, expenses) we will donate to the people harmed here. PS: We will NOT allow any more Govt purchases in NYS after this minute. Private sales of course will continue and comply with all regulations, just as they always have."
If I am not mistaken in my recollection, NYPD various forces have MORE unintentional discharges, wounded cops, and bystanders every year with Glocks, than all of the people involved in this subway shooting. It got so bad that they have had to replace the trigger groups on all weapons, making the new trigger pull 7 1/2- 9lbs depending upon agency.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 5/31/2022 6:30:54 PM (No. 1171754)
Applying the same convoluted "logic," if a person can successfully sue the gun manufacturer for a criminal killing a loved one with an illegal Glock, why cannot that same person successfully sue that same gun manufacturer for a policeman failing to prevent the murder of the loved one with his legal Glock? After all, if the issue is "agency," it is the same agent in both cases.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 5/31/2022 7:17:33 PM (No. 1171804)
There is a federal law that specifically forbids these lawsuits.
Of course, federal laws don't seem to "work" any more, judge seem to consistently ignore federal laws.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 5/31/2022 7:33:58 PM (No. 1171815)
What company manufactured the subway cars and distributed them in a way that enabled this attack to take place? Clearly they have created a public nuisance.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
shredmaster 5/31/2022 7:50:10 PM (No. 1171842)
In a related story, dinnerware manufacturers were sued for deaths by obesity from overeating.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/1/2022 3:03:31 AM (No. 1172036)
When does government or members of government get sued for all the damage they cause?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 6/1/2022 8:08:15 AM (No. 1172180)
Lawyers only sue people with deep pockets. Suing people with no money is a waste of time.
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Any lawyers involved in this should be disbarred, for starters.