When are the Brady Bunch going to learn that blaming someone or something other than the INDIVIDUAL who commits a crime aint gonna get rid of crime.!?!?!?!?

This isn’t the first lawsuit they lost, hang it up guys…………. It don’t work!
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Judge rules in favor of gun maker

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Monday, January 27, 2003
LAW OF THE LAND
Judge rules in favor of gun maker
Says company not liable in death of Florida teacher
Posted: January 27, 2003
6:41 p.m. Eastern

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A judge in West Palm Beach, Fla., threw out a jury’s verdict today that
had
held a gun distributor partially liable for the shooting death of a
middle-school teacher.

According to a report in the Palm Beach Post, the company, Valor Corp.,
was
found negligent in November in the death of Barry Grunow because the
.25-caliber firearm student Nathaniel Brazill used to kill him did not
have
a lock.

“The allegations in the negligence claim were completely dependent upon a
finding of a defect in the product,” Judge Jorge Labarga said in his
ruling.

In a 6-0 decision, however, the jury found that the gun was not defective.

The jury had found that Valor Corp. was 5 percent responsible for the
teacher’s death, resulting in a $1.2 million judgment. The Palm Beach
County School Board was found to be 45 percent responsible, according to
the Post report.

Fifty percent of the responsibility was determined to rest with Elmore
McCray, a Brazill family friend who reportedly kept the Raven Arms gun in
an unlocked dresser drawer.

Both McCray and the school board had settled with Grunow’s widow
previously, leaving only the gun distributor left on the case.

Bob Montgomery, a prominent personal injury attorney who won an $11.3
billion settlement against the tobacco industry, had sought $76 million in

damages against Valor, reported the Post. The case was closely watched
because it was the first to combine claims that so-called “Saturday night
specials” are inherently defective and should be sold only with safety
locks.

Brazill was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison for the May 2000
slaying of his teacher.