A Nevada law protects the gun manufacturers from culpability unless one of their firearms malfunctions.
Nevada's highest court has sided with gun manufacturers in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of a woman killed in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas strip, the Associated Press reported.ruled that the gunmakers, including Colt Manufacturing Co. and several others, are not liable for the shooting deaths because a state law protects them from culpability unless one of their firearms malfunctions.
The woman's parents filed the lawsuit in July 2019, alleging that the gun companies"knowingly manufactured and sold weapons designed to shoot automatically because they were aware their AR-15s could be easily modified with bump stocks to do so, thereby violating federal and state machine gun prohibitions."
"We hold that [state law] provides the gun companies immunity from the wrongful death and negligence per se claims asserted against them under Nevada law in this case," Justice Kristina Pickering wrote in the decision.The Nevada Supreme Court cited a state law that shields gun manufacturers from liability unless the weapon malfunctions in a new ruling that says they cannot be held responsible for the deaths in the 2017 mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.