The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to hear gun manufacturers’ case against a New York State law allowing people to sue them for negligence if they don’t take certain steps to prevent trafficking, theft and misuse of firearms, effectively allowing the law to remain standing and lawsuits to flow.
The court’s decision comes after years of challenges to the landmark gun accountability legislation, which passed the state legislature in 2021. By legally requiring gun manufacturers to take steps to prevent people who shouldn’t have guns from having them, it opened up the possibility for people who had been shot or killed by a gun that had been sold by a manufacturer who hadn’t followed those rules to sue over negligence.
