Little-Acorn
08-09-2013, 12:21 PM
Do the leftist fanatics also believe that the Colorado dealer should be held liable, who sold Nathan Louis Campbell the car he was driving when he used it to run over dozens of people on the Venice Beach boardwalk? Or maybe Chrysler Corp. should be liable, since they manufactured the car?
The souls of the people killed on the boardwalk, cry out for justice against that eeeevil dealer and manufacturer!
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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/08/02/judge-dismisses-suit-against-online-gun-marketplace/
Judge Dismisses Suit Against Online Gun Marketplace
By Jacob Gershman
August 2, 2013, 6:40 PM
Armslist.com isn’t liable for the brutal murder of an Illinois woman shot to death by a man who used the online firearms marketplace to make an illegal gun purchase, a federal judge ruled this week.
The lawsuit was brought by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence on behalf of the brother of Jitka Vesel, a 36-year-old immigrant shot and killed in 2011 by a Russian immigrant living in Canada. Gun-control advocates said the legal challenge was the first of its kind.
U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle of Illinois dismissed the wrongful death claim this week, concluding that Armslist can’t be held responsible for the criminal conduct of its users. “The Court finds that Defendant owes no duty to the general public to operate its website to control private individual users’ sale of handguns,” the judge wrote.
Attorneys for Armslist didn’t respond to a request for comment.
One of its users was Demetry Smirnov, who is serving a life sentence for stalking and murdering Ms. Vesel, whom he met online years earlier. Mr. Smirnov admitted to purchasing a .40-caliber handgun in Seattle from a private seller who posted an ad for the weapon on Armslist. Mr. Smirnov paid an extra $200 because it was an illegal purchase, and then shot Ms. Vesel about a dozen times in the parking lot of a Chicago-area museum, according to federal prosecutors. The seller received a one-year sentence.
The souls of the people killed on the boardwalk, cry out for justice against that eeeevil dealer and manufacturer!
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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2013/08/02/judge-dismisses-suit-against-online-gun-marketplace/
Judge Dismisses Suit Against Online Gun Marketplace
By Jacob Gershman
August 2, 2013, 6:40 PM
Armslist.com isn’t liable for the brutal murder of an Illinois woman shot to death by a man who used the online firearms marketplace to make an illegal gun purchase, a federal judge ruled this week.
The lawsuit was brought by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence on behalf of the brother of Jitka Vesel, a 36-year-old immigrant shot and killed in 2011 by a Russian immigrant living in Canada. Gun-control advocates said the legal challenge was the first of its kind.
U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle of Illinois dismissed the wrongful death claim this week, concluding that Armslist can’t be held responsible for the criminal conduct of its users. “The Court finds that Defendant owes no duty to the general public to operate its website to control private individual users’ sale of handguns,” the judge wrote.
Attorneys for Armslist didn’t respond to a request for comment.
One of its users was Demetry Smirnov, who is serving a life sentence for stalking and murdering Ms. Vesel, whom he met online years earlier. Mr. Smirnov admitted to purchasing a .40-caliber handgun in Seattle from a private seller who posted an ad for the weapon on Armslist. Mr. Smirnov paid an extra $200 because it was an illegal purchase, and then shot Ms. Vesel about a dozen times in the parking lot of a Chicago-area museum, according to federal prosecutors. The seller received a one-year sentence.