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Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) refused to hear a suit brought by New York City against the gun industry.
The story starts in 2000, when New York - under Rudy Guilliani - sued Beretta, Smith & Wesson, Colt, Sturm/Ruger and Glock (all makers of very fine, delightful hand guns), arguing that the companies violated a state public nuisance law by marketing and selling their products.
(Shouldn't that apply to political campaigns?)
Being unable to get Americans to willingly give up their liberty, safety, rights to self defense and to combat tyranny, and the final veto that the 2nd Amendment represents, Progressives have been taking aim at destroying the supply of arms that make a dictatorship of the proletariat impossible.
They do this by going after the gun and ammunition makers. It's tactic of which Barack Obama and Joe Biden are big fans.
To combat this vile and pernicious assault on human dignity and freedom, the Republicans in Congress, in one of the relatively few intelligent things they did over the past 8 years, passed a bill to prevent such frivolous lawsuits (which, by the way, cost taxpayer's a lot of money).
New York argued that the law violates the 10th Amendment, granting states sovereign rights. Normally, it's an argument that one would be more sympathetic towards if a) the people making it weren't usually a bunch of collectivists, b) the states were talking about rights not already protected by Amendments 1-9.
A federal judge tossed out the case. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling by a 2-1 vote last April.
And Michael Bloomberg was last seen searching for more things to ban. (Look: salt!)
Remember: guns don't kill people. Collectivists kill people.
