Two weeks ago the once-great Detroit News (oh, how we miss its pre-Gannett days) published a “Special Report” entitled “Flawed guns: America unprotected” (Dec. 14-16) which recycles the plaintiffs’ allegations in seemingly every extant “design defect” case against the firearms industry. Matthew Hunter (”Trigger Finger”) has now posted a ten-part rebuttal (first entry). One of Hunter’s themes: many of the design features portrayed as “defects” in the News series are in fact sought out knowingly by many sophisticated gun buyers, as with Glock’s deliberate omission of a manual safety on its extremely popular police gun.
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Another Whining Gun Control Article
Thanks to Overlawyered for the pointer to a series of articles in the Detroit News about Flawed gun designs, with a headline noting “Public At Risk”. At the top of this page is the obligatory pic of family members of a “victim” of bad gun design. Part …
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