xena, I think you are the one who missed the point, which is that the gun in question did nothing faulty, unlike the design flaw in the pinto that you used in your comparison, the car was falty or had a design flaw. the gun has no such design flaw. it functiond flawlessly, so you are for sewing companys who produce products that do exactly what they say they will do?
So can I sue huskavana because the chain saw cut through my leg? is that a design flaw. I think not, you need to focus, a design flaw would be weak metal that the gun company new would not take the presures of the cartridg and blows up in the face of the user not when the usere, and this is the problem here many want to blame the misuse of the user on the manufacture, and that is why all of these law suits go down in flames,
the manufacture says this is a dangerous item and needs to be used by responsible adults, and it is safe, the gun is safe, I have owned jennings guns before, yes they are inexpensive, so what, you think a black single mom living in a bad projects can afford a 600$ smith and wesson? I think not.
But back to the point you were trying to make, which no disrespect to you but it is totaly wrong, you can in no way compare a item that did something to hurt the user when the user was just doing what he was suposed to be doing, and some one misusing an item, you would have the family of selfinflicted gun shot wounds sue the factory?
Let me put this in simpler terms [not that you need it but to keep is simple for all to grasp} the pinto comparison is not a good one it is apples and oranges, this is much better, sueing gun manufactures for misuse of guns is the same as sueing car manufactures because a drunk driver ran over some ones 5 year old, the car did not do anything it was not supposed to do.
You need to keep the blame on the right place, the misuse of the user,
people need to be responsible for their actions, It is all to easy and an base emotional responce to say sue the make of the item bad bad gun, bad bad car,
inanimate objects can sit in a ditch and never hurt any one. a knife can sit in a kitchen counter and never do any more harm that cut a dead cucumber,
but in the hands of an al quada nut case it can take the head off an innocent person. do we need to ban or stop makeing certian kitchen knives because some low life animal in the middle east uses one to do evil? of corse not nor do we need to ban or limit or sue the manufacture of louisville slugers because some nut case beat in some persons head with one.
Guns are nothing more than a tool, they can be collected like I do. or be used for hunting, self defence, defence of country, keep the peace in law enforcment, used in pest control like nutria in louisiana, ect.
Many have said that we need to licence users of gun, we need a drivers licence to drive a car? yes we do on public highways, and to have a ccw we need to get that licence, and you need to pass certian criteria, but you do not need to have a licence to have a car on your own property, that is the infringment, so to we should not need a licence to have a gun on our own property, you see when you put emotion asside the left gun grab falls flat on its face,
I hope this clears up your missunderstanding,