Gun Store Ordered to Pay $6 Million to Wounded Officers

While he says his store trains its employees, and has ways to filter out straw purchasers looking to buy a gun and give it to a criminal. “I was glad, I felt like somebody is finally listening, and in Milwaukee they’re doing the same thing that we are doing here in Chicago – trying to get the guns off the streets”, said Pam Bosley.

“Getting a case like this even before a jury is a herculean task”, said Ladd Everitt, director of communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence in Washington, D.C., referring to the law as the “gun industry immunity law”.

Advocates for stronger gun safety laws have hailed a rare victory in a lawsuit brought by victims of a shooting against the gun dealer that sold the pistol used to injure them. The jury fund for the gun shop in the first case. The gun ended up in the hands of underage, Julius Burton, who shot the officers point blank.

While there hasn’t been an effort to repeal the 2005 law in Congress recently, it was a hot topic in Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, with Hillary Clinton pointing out that while she had voted against the provision, her opponent, Bernie Sanders, had voted for it. He remains on the force but argues that his wounds have made his work hard. “He was like my blessing and he would want me to fight, he would want to make sure that no other kids would die like him”, Nance-Holt said. The jury also awarded $730,000 punitive damages.

After a man shot two cops, the officers blamed the Wisconsin gun store and raked in a cool $6 million dollars.

Burton pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and is in prison serving an 80-year sentence. The ATF is also now barred from releasing rankings on gun stores and crime guns, so it isn’t clear whether Badger stores continued to sell an incredibly high number of crime guns. The 18-year-old shooter who was too young to buy a gun had gotten his 21-year-old friend to buy it for him.

The officers filed suit claiming the store was negligent in selling the weapon.

In the two years before the shooting, Badger Guns was cited 130 times for federal gun violations, according to the Journal Sentinel The store’s owner had his license revoked by the ATF in 2011 because of the many infractions – he had bought Badger Outdoors and reopened it under the name Badger Guns in 2007 after the ATF threatened to revoke the store’s license in 2006. Attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants did not respond to requests for comment.