LAPD officer shot by his son sues gun maker

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"The gun is designed so that when the trigger is pulled, the gun discharges. Our firearm performed precisely as designed, and precisely as advertised. Defense motions for dismissal."
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This is exactly what the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act passed for.


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Glock will settle just like this officer's attorney knows they will. Two letters will cause Glock to settle X D.

A decent attorney will point to numerous gun manufacturers who have both trigger and grip safeties or external safeties like a lever. The XD looks so much like a Glock they would stand them side by side and point out the safeties that the XD has that the Glock doesn't. This is California kids, it's a Lock against Glock and the attorney knows it.
 
IMO The paraplegic needs to be put in jail just like anyone else that breaks the law.

If I were Glocks' Attorney, I would be all would be all over the DA to get him charged.

Sounds to me like the cop is not only a paraplegic, but a parasite as well...
 
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Glock will settle just like this officer's attorney knows they will. Two letters will cause Glock to settle X D.

A decent attorney will point to numerous gun manufacturers who have both trigger and grip safeties or external safeties like a lever. The XD looks so much like a Glock they would stand them side by side and point out the safeties that the XD has that the Glock doesn't. This is California kids, it's a Lock against Glock and the attorney knows it.
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Not so sure about that.

This is exactly what the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act passed for.


If the gun works as functioned, you are protected from frivolous lawsuits such as this one.

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criminals have successfully sued homeowners when they have hurt themselves while engaged in burglarizing a home.
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Do you have a citation supporting the "successful" part?
 
You can't hand a manufacturer an easier case to win. The only hitch I can see is the all-powerful, all knowing, 9th circuit court jesters...er judges. Only in California would this guy have a prayer of winning.
 
Why doesn't he sue the LAPD for allowing him to pass the psychological exam & inadequately training him to safely maintaining his firearm
 
The only person I feel bad for is the son who will grow up knowing he pulled the trigger. He isn't responsible (as he is three), but that is still a terrible burden to bear.

I hope the judge throws this out and charges the degenerate father.
 
Wow, so this guy buys a gun without a safety and the cheapest holster he can get and complains that his son was able to use it?

Wow, the nerve some people have. I guess that he hasn't learned that suing won't give him control of his legs back.

People make mistakes and reality really is unfortunate in the way that it makes people pay for them. Can't change the laws of nature with a lawsuit...
 
http://www.legalzoom.com/legal-articles/article11331.html

I searched frivolous lawsuits and this came up. I am sure there are many more.

In 1997, Larry Harris of Illinois broke into a bar owned by Jessie Ingram. Ingram, the victim of several break-ins, had recently set a trap around his windows to deter potential burglars. Harris, 37, who was under the influence of both alcohol and drugs, must have missed the warning sign prominently displayed in the window. He set off the trap as he entered the window, electrocuting himself. The police refused to file murder charges. Harris’s family saw it differently, however, and filed a civil suit against Ingram. A jury originally awarded the Harris family $150,000. Later, the award was reduced to $75,000 when it was decided Harris should share at least half of the blame.
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His child was not restrained, he had no control over his weapon.

Who's to blame? Glock, Uncle Mikes, LAPRAC, Turners?

Sounds like his own irresponsibility got him into trouble.
 
Do you have a citation supporting the "successful" part?
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http://www.blogd.com/wp/index.php/archives/3206


Bizarro-Overlawyered is upset about the fact that a legislator, over twenty years ago, mentioned a lawsuit involving “a burglar [that] fell through a skylight and injured himself only to recover thousands of dollars from the owner of the skylight,” and points to this MS Word account of the case of Bodine v. Enterprise High School to debunk the tale. Those dastardly reformers, misrepresenting the facts once again! (Of course, there are several thousand posts on Overlawyered over the last seven years, and not a one before today mentions this case, so it’s hardly central to the reform movement. It doesn’t appear on the ATRA website, either. But why split hairs when there’s a chance to demonize reformers?)

Except if one actually goes to the document, buried within a lot of rhetoric criticizing reformers for mentioning the Bodine lawsuit, we learn: Ricky Bodine was a 19-year-old high-school graduate who, with three other friends (one of whom had a criminal record), decided the night of March 1, 1982, to steal a floodlight from the roof of the Enterprise High School gymnasium. Ricky climbed the roof, removed the floodlight, lowered it to the ground to his friends, and, as he was walking across the roof (perhaps to steal a second floodlight), he fell through the skylight. Bodine suffered terrible injuries to be sure, though one questions the relevance: if the school is legally responsible for burglars’ safety, it doesn’t matter whether Bodine stubbed a toe or, as actually happened, became a spastic quadriplegic. But I fail to see what it is that reformers are supposedly misrepresenting. A burglar fell through a skylight, and sued the owner of the skylight for his injuries. Bodine sued for $8 million (in 1984 dollars, about $16 million today) and settled for the nuisance sum of $260,000 plus $1200/month for life, about the equivalent of a million dollars in conservatively-estimated 2006 present value.

In other words, a burglar fell through a skylight, and blamed the skylight’s owners for his injuries; because the law permits such suits, and because the law does not compensate defendants for successful defenses, Bodine had the ability to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers for injuries suffered in the course of his own criminal behavior. Bodine’s only hope of recovery is the law’s rejection of proximate cause as prerequisite to liability. Assemblyman Alister McAlister, the Democratic legislator who used the story to push for reform, described the facts correctly. McAllister didn’t mention that Bodine was 19, but so what? He didn’t mention that Bodine was 6′1″ and a waiter, either, and all three facts are irrelevant. Lilliedoll accuses McAlister of falsely claiming that the legal theory was “failure to warn,” but that’s hardly an inaccurate description of a duty-to-trespassers theory: the alleged duty could have been fulfilled by posting visible warnings to trespassers of the dangers of traversing the roof.
 
He didn't sue Ford? Amazing.

Obviously, the Ford Ranger's seats are inadequately designed.
 
Why hasn't he bee prosecuted for violating the Youth Handgun Safety Act? -- you the one Federal Law forces your dealer to stick in the box along with the trigger lock.

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Lemme get this right...

LAPD officer, ostensibly familiar with how his weapon works, leaves it loaded in the back of his car for his unrestrained kid to play with like it was beanie-baby? Then he wants to blame Glock when his kid nominates him for a Darwin Award?

When did the LAPD start accepting recruits off the short bus?
 
I think Glock should pursue the case for twenty years and drive the Guy into Bankruptcy for being so stupid as to get into that situation anyway and then try and sue them.
 
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