Details

• Sponsor - Kennedy
• Proposed - July 27, 2005
• Congressional Record Link - SA1613
• Amends - S.397
• Amendments - None.
• Vote - Amendment did not reach Senate floor.
• Results - No change in law.

Synopsis

This amendment would have added an opening for lawsuits

• if a seller failed to report a firearm loss or theft.
• when the seller knows, or reasonably should know, the person to whom the product is supplied is likely to, and does, use the product in a manner involving unreasonable risk of physical injury to the person or others.

Analysis

Reporting the loss or theft of a firearm just makes good sense. But, the filing of the paperwork does nothing for public safety and should not open a company up to lawsuits. Setting the threshold at a single firearm is also the way to maximize the number of companies that would loose the protections of S.397.

The Negligent Entrustment  clause is wording common to at least half a dozen of these amendments. So, one more time, every firearm runs the risk of injuring a person and this would be an open ended invitation to allow lawsuits.

In effect, this amendment would gut the bill.

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