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Personal Injury & Torts

Oct. 27, 1999

Government Gun Suits Are a Twisted Use of Tort Law

By Gary Kleck If Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney general, has his way, more of the nation's gun manufacturers will follow the lead of Colt's Manufacturing Co. and cut back big parts of their business to please the advocates of gun control.

        By Gary Kleck
        
        If Eliot Spitzer, New York state's attorney general, has his way, more of the nation's gun manufacturers will follow the lead of Colt's Manufacturing Co. and cut back big parts of their business to please the advocates of gun control.
        When Colt's announced ...

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