Good News for a Change

The title says it all: "Federal Law Negates D.C.'s Suit Against Gunmakers, Judge Rules".

Washington DC has never figured out that heavy gun control means that only criminals have guns.

So they acted sort of like the Bozeman lawmakers in my dog post below, figuring the popular law against making it impossible to sue gunmakers for the crimes of others didn't exist, or didn't really mean what it clearly said, or do what it was meant to do. Or something.

Judge Brooke Hedge plainly did not agree.

""The Court is faced with a classic tension between two elected branches of different governments, two equally clear legislative judgments, but each enforcing opposite policies," Hedge wrote.

" "At bottom," she said, the federal law was enacted "to prohibit the very types of lawsuits the Strict Liability Act allows."

"And unless she was persuaded that the federal law was unconstitutional -- which she was not -- the federal law would prevail, she wrote."

The lawmakers in DC are acting JUST like the Bozemanites.

"The D.C. attorney general's office and Wilmer Hale, the firm that is the lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said yesterday that they are weighing whether to appeal the ruling to the D.C. Court of Appeals."

Wonder what that will cost the taxpayers?