National Ammo Lawsuit Against Cabelas Could Mean BIG Changes For Firearms Retailers

[Bushman]

This is as moronic as suing a gas station for allowing someone to pump gas when it turns out that they later use the car to drive into a crowd, the saying the guy had a suspended license, the gas station should have known that...idiots....idiots...idiots...

 

[po18guy]

Law enforcement and prosecutors are prohibited from going on legal fishing expeditions. Too bad that doesn't also apply to the brain damaged bar association members who smoke ambulance exhaust.

 

[Dscotty]

This is what the world is coming to. Nobody is responsible for their own actions anymore. Sue McD's for getting fat or burning yourself on hot coffee. Sue the gun manufacturer for someone shooting you. Sue the cigarette companies for getting cancer because you were too ignorant to know that cigarettes cause cancer....Sue the store owner because you cut your hand while breaking his glass window while peacefully protesting. I don't think it's gonna get any better. I should have went to law school and became a lawyer.

You know the lady who "sued" mcdonalds didn't want to sue the fda did it on her behalf after she got third degree burns on her genitals and the fda had told mcdonalds to turn down the temp at which they sold thier coffee from 210 to 180. McDonald's had multiple cases of people being burned by over cooked coffee before the old lady

 

[JohnnyMac]

You know the lady who "sued" mcdonalds didn't want to sue the fda did it on her behalf after she got third degree burns on her genitals and the fda had told mcdonalds to turn down the temp at which they sold thier coffee from 210 to 180. McDonald's had multiple cases of people being burned by over cooked coffee before the old lady

 

[tinkerbill]

Unfortunately, this is how it works today. Many unfortunate people experience unfortunate deaths. Some of these people are outcasts from their own families. Yet when the unfortunate wastrel dies, the relatives are suddenly highly aggrieved that they have lost the companionship of this valued family member. Like people who get put in jail, have been trouble-makers all their lives, call a relative to bail them out who refuses to do it. Then the unfortunate one chokes on a peach pit in jail, the lawsuit against the county is huge. All of a sudden this cast-off relative is a valued member of the family. This has become a very costly part of doing business for municipalities and counties.

The US is just loaded with ambulance chasers who live off this stuff. I see their ads on TV all the time, urging people to sue the Boy Scouts, the Catholic Church, chemical companies, etc. The injury compensation specialists urging accident "victims" to come forward and launch lawsuits. Like so many other things, it's gotten way out of hand.



If Cabela's had this kind of crystal ball, they wouldn't have sold any ammunition to anyone in the first place.

I had to look the following up. I didn't trust myself not to just be spouting off without really knowing what I was talking about. But when I was still a young man in the 1970's, it seemed to me like a lot of people my age were jumping on the law school band wagon. They looked around, saw that attorneys made pretty good money, and thought, "This is the way to go." Baby Boomers had to find a way. Next thing you know, too many lawyers. So they had to drum up business and it's still going on. Turns out my impression was right. Look at the graphs at this link:

Historical Growth Rate of Lawyers in USA - Chart - Associate's Mind

As people seem to enjoy charts, here’s another one. What we have here is the number of lawyers in the United States (as per available data) contrasted with the population of the United States. While US population growth has been low (and dwindling) for decades, the amount of lawyers being...

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As a percentage of the general population, lawyers increasing all the time.

Reminds me of a lawyer joke:
NASA Space Admin. was going to use rats for one particular risky experiment because they are cheap and plentiful. At the last minute they switched to lawyers because there are some things that rats just won't do!!

 

[Provincial]

Lawyers will inherit the Earth. That is because they are more numerous than the cockroaches, and they have fewer moral constraints than the rats.

 

[K-22]

And how many other products are sold by retailers, far more dangerous than ammunition, and are sold to anyone of any age and have been PROVEN to have been used intentionally for illegal and nefarious reasons?

I'll cite the most basic - gasoline - want to start on how it can be used to create any one of a number of deadly devices?

Shall we include fertilizer?

 

[po18guy]

Well, getting back to the initial post, concepts such as "could" and "big changes" would include the potetial for the world to end tonight. All that was decided was that the lawsuit could proceed. And, we know that you may sue anyone, at anytime, for anything. And, we know that many frightened noobs will be in any given jury. Their ability to buy ammo when anarchy threatens will be in their minds.

The higher this case goes, the better. However, I see an out of court settlement, not admitting to culpability and with the record sealed. How Cabela's responds at the retail level (they're pretty wimpy) remains to be seen. And Bass Pro calls the shots here.