Before congressional Republicans and former President George W. Bush ushered in a 2005 law to shield gun makers from liability, the world’s firearms manufacturers widely asserted that they should not be held responsible for the sale and distribution of their products, according to thousands of pages of depositions obtained by the New York Times and detailed in a report published online Monday.
The report quoted the president of Sturm, Ruger, a Connecticut-based firearm manufacturer, who argued that “it wouldn’t show us anything” to know the frequency that police traced guns back to the company’s dealers. A top executive at the Brazilian company Taurs International said candidly, “I don’t even know what a gun trafficker is.”
Read the entire report in the Times here.
