Post by Logan on Apr 9, 2016 19:27:09 GMT -6
On Thursday, a San Antonio couple asked Sen. Bernie Sanders to apologize for the heartache his support of a 2005 law protecting the gun industry has caused.
Lonnie and Sandy Phillips filed a federal lawsuit in 2014 against several online ammunition companies after their daughter, Jessica Ghawi, was killed when James Holmes opened fire in the Aurora Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Holmes killed 12 on July 20, 2012.
“Our lawsuit was for injunctive relief, not for money, but it was dismissed on the first motion before we ever got a chance to present our case,” Lonnie Phillips wrote in an earlier letter to Sanders. “The judge cited the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act as cause for dismissal and to add insult to injury he ordered us to pay the outrageous sum of $203,000 in attorney’s fees and costs to the defendants.”
According to the lawsuit, Holmes was able to buy 4,000 rounds of ammunition online without any safeguards. But because of the law that provides immunity in state and federal court from civil liability for manufacturers, distributors and dealers of firearms, the couple did not get a chance to present their case, their attorney said.
Read more: www.timesargus.com/article/20160409/NEWS01/160409718
Lonnie and Sandy Phillips filed a federal lawsuit in 2014 against several online ammunition companies after their daughter, Jessica Ghawi, was killed when James Holmes opened fire in the Aurora Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
Holmes killed 12 on July 20, 2012.
“Our lawsuit was for injunctive relief, not for money, but it was dismissed on the first motion before we ever got a chance to present our case,” Lonnie Phillips wrote in an earlier letter to Sanders. “The judge cited the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act as cause for dismissal and to add insult to injury he ordered us to pay the outrageous sum of $203,000 in attorney’s fees and costs to the defendants.”
According to the lawsuit, Holmes was able to buy 4,000 rounds of ammunition online without any safeguards. But because of the law that provides immunity in state and federal court from civil liability for manufacturers, distributors and dealers of firearms, the couple did not get a chance to present their case, their attorney said.
Read more: www.timesargus.com/article/20160409/NEWS01/160409718