From Daily Caller
New York’s Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasted no time peddling lies and frequently debunked falsehoods about the firearm industry while announcing his new first-in-the-nation criminal gun violence “Disaster Emergency” plans.
The governor’s antigun track record runs longer than the Hudson River. It wasn’t surprising that his dog and pony show announcement included a bill signing ceremony enacting the unconstitutional expansion of New York’s “public nuisance” law to allow civil lawsuits against firearm manufacturers and retailers for the crimes committed by non-affiliated third parties. Those would be the criminals that Gov. Cuomo failed to mention.
Once. Twice. Three Times, Still False.
Gov. Cuomo was joined at his antigun announcement soiree by all the usual gun control accomplices. He rattled off several planks for his gun control grab bag audience, repeating the same old tired claims.
“Only industry in the United States of America. The only industry in the United States of America immune from lawsuits are the gun manufacturers, thanks to George Bush and the NRA,” the governor said.
Apparently, the governor thinks that facts don’t matter. Gov. Cuomo should’ve learned from President Joe Biden’s recent Rose Garden announcement when fact checkers had a field day refuting the president when he made the false claim. The Washington Post, CNN, Politifact and other normally friendly media allies all rated the president’s claim “False.”
It was false when President Biden made the claim earlier this year. It was also false when Hillary Clinton tried the same act in 2015. It’s still false now.
The bipartisan Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) was signed into law by President George W. Bush in response to the tidal wave of frivolous lawsuits against the firearm industry in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Members of the industry were being sued – largely by big cities like New York – for lawfully selling firearms that were later misused by criminals. These lawsuits were routinely thrown out of court and courts since have repeatedly upheld the PLCAA as Constitutional.
