Gun Owners Alliance ALERTS!

This type of court judgment should be protested LOUDLY, with our State and Federal Legislators. We DO NOT want such a judgment to establish a trend within this Nation, for obvious reasons!

Will auto makers now be liable for drunk driver's actions? And how many other examples can one give? Numerous!

I am seeking suggestions as to how we can combat this eronious action.

With Respect,

Gun Owners Alliance
Chris W. Stark - Director
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http://www.click10.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-178698620021114-161148.html


Jury Orders Gun Distributor To Pay $1.2M To Widow

Landmark Civil Case Stems From 13-Year-Old's Murder Of Fla. Teacher

Updated: 9:26 p.m. EST November 14, 2002

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A jury has awarded a Florida woman $1.2 million from a gun distributor that sold the gun used to kill her husband two years ago. Pam Grunow's lawsuit accused Valor Corp. of distributing a gun that was "unsafe, defective and lacked features that would have prevented a minor from using it."

Thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Brazill used the gun to kill his teacher, Barry Grunow, Pam's husband, in a West Palm Beach classroom in 2000. Brazill was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 28 years in prison.

Pam Grunow's lawyer asked for $76 million. But the jury found gun distributor Valor Corp. 5 percent liable for Grunow's death. The owner of the gun and the school board held most of the liability, the jury found.

The jury didn't find any liability for Brazill, who pulled the trigger. Brazill stole the unloaded gun and bullets from a cookie tin stashed away in a dresser drawer of family friend Elmore McCray.

The jury said Grunow's family should get $24 million from the three parties. The school board was told to pay her $10.8 million, and the family friend was told to pay $12 million.

This is the first lawsuit in the country in which a gun company has been held responsible in a murder.


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