Information on Product Liability

Studies

• Deadly Exceptions: Gun Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages

• The Endgame: Any Settlement of Firearms Litigation Must Address Three Specific Areas of Gun Industry Conduct and Include a Strict Enforcement Mechanism

• Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America

• Small Favors: A Sampling of Assault Weapon and Saturday Night Special Manufacturers That Would be Protected by the Product Liability Bill's "Small Business" Cap on Punitive Damages

• Lawyers, Guns, and Money : The Impact of Tort Restrictions on Firearms Safety and Gun Control

• Special Report: Gun Lobby's "Fellow Travelers" Equate Firearms Industry With Communists

• Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence

Press Release

• Backgrounder on the Manufacturer of the Gun Reportedly Used in the Alleged Shooting by Nathaniel Brazill at Lake Worth Middle School in Lake Worth, Florida (05/10/2001)

• Smith & Wesson "Clarification" of Agreement Between Government and Gunmaker Exposes "Landmark" Settlement to be a Sham (04/12/2000)

• New VPC Report Details How Liability Legislation (H.R. 2366) Would Protect Manufacturers of Guns Used in 1999 Columbine Massacre (02/15/2000)

• New VPC Report Lays Out Minimal Terms for Settlement of Litigation Against Gun Industry (12/21/99)

• Gun Industry Loses In Court Again (06/30/99)

• Landmark Verdict Against Gun Industry Paves Way for Further Litigation (02/11/99)

• VPC Analyst's New Book Shows How Gun Industry Uses Lethality As Marketing Tool (01/20/99)

• VPC Blasts President For Hosting Rose Garden Gun Event While Selling Out Gun Victims on Lawsuit Bill (07/08/98)

• Product Liability Bill Would Block Lawsuits Against Firearms Industry By Gun Victims (06/30/98)

• Product Liability Bill To Be Voted on In Senate Offers Special Protection to Unscrupulous Gun Dealers and Manufacturers of Defective Firearms