Unable to determine which company made the gun that fired the bullet into Fox's head, the jury ordered all the maker of. The Fox case jury found a dozen gun makers guilty of negligent distribution. Nor can industry executives fail to have noticed the requests - more than 800,000 of them - to manufacturers from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agency (the Untouchables of movie fame) to trace guns captured by police after use in crimes.
Their own market models cannot account for half the gun sales in loose-law states such as Georgia. Like the company that sells cigarette rolling papers in quantities far outstripping sales of legal tobacco leaf, gun manufacturers have a wink-and-nod understanding of where their products end up. Gun companies dumped several million weapons into outlets in states with few curbs on purchases, super-saturating the legal market so that excess would flow up the so-called 'Iron Pipeline' to meet black market demand in New York and other big cities. Through investigation and statistical analysis she concluded that sales to criminals are a much-valued - if unpublicised - market segment sought out and provisioned by these upstanding manufacturers. Smith and Wesson is the number one seller of killer guns and it's owned by Tomkins plc, of England.'Īrmed crime is traditionally viewed as a social problem, but Barnes thought it was too convenient for gun makers to blame the criminal alone. Glock, Browning, Beretta have these refined European owners. This drives Elisa Barnes crazy.īarnes is the lawyer who recently brought a groundbreaking law suit against handgun manufacturers, which were found negligent in the shooting of Fox. It is an opportunity for snooty comparisons with America's crude and lawless society. Guns, ammo and accessories are a $6 billion-a-year honey pot for several corporations: Browning, Smith & Wesson, Colt and others.īritain loves stories of gun lust in the US.
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