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Connecticut’s U.S. Senators are once again pushing to repeal the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). The law protects gun manufacturers from lawsuits brought by victims of gun violence and their families.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the bill’s Senate sponsor, admitted that it’s a hard sell to his Republican colleagues and President.
“Obviously we face an administration that has very little sympathy for Gun Violence Protection,” Blumenthal said. “We face long odds in Congress. But keeping alive this idea, sustaining the momentum in states that care about our leadership here, and making sure that victims of gun violence know they have advocates, is all tremendously important.”
The lawsuit won by the Sandy Hook families against Remington was almost blocked b
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