Details

• Sponsor - Corzine
• Proposed - July 27, 2005
• Congressional Record Link - SA1618
• 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 perpetrator used an FN Five-SeveN or armor piercing ammunition
• 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

There is nothing special about an FN Five-SeveN except that it uses a small round in front of a lot of powder. There are already laws governing true armor piercing ammunition and laws about shooting people. This is a waste trying to place blame where it does not belong.

Anytime there is the clause 'knows, or reasonably should know' you open the protected group to lawsuits anytime a lawyer wanted to allege this. It takes a court proceeding to determine 'reasonable cause' negating the benefit of the bill.

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.

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