If they can’t disarm the populace, shut down and close the gun manufacturers.
Via Guns:
Connecticut Democrat U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is seeking to overturn a longstanding ban against using gun trace information in civil proceedings.
Currently the 2003 Tiahart Amendment blocks the use of the contents of the Firearms Trace System database maintained by the National Trace Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives in state civil lawsuits or in efforts to suspend or revoke a gun dealer’s license. Blumenthal, noted for his stand on gun control topics, filed a simple one-page repealer bill last Thursday that seeks to remove the ban.
While his office did not make a statement on the legislation, the bill, S.2594, contains language lifted verbatim from the Senator’s Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act, S.2469, which aims to repeal the current law blocking frivolous lawsuits against the gun industry, filed last month.
“Breaking the industry’s legal shield means that bad actors can be made to pay, and good ones have a fairer playing field,” said Blumenthal at the time.
The new, abbreviated measure would allow gun trace data to be subject to subpoena or other legal discovery, used as evidence, disclosed in any manner and allowed in civil actions in any state or territory in federal or local courts. Should the proposal succeed, it would effectively throw the Trace System database open for a myriad of potential plaintiffs even if the larger bill to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act fails.