by AWR Hawkins
The Associated Press fact checked President Joe Biden’s State of the Union claim that gun makers enjoy immunity from lawsuits and found it “false.”
The AP noted that Biden claim that there is a “liability shield that makes gun manufacturers the only industry in America that can’t be sued, the only one.”
After checking on the validity of Biden’s statement, the AP retorted: “That’s false. While gun manufacturers do have legal protections from being held liable for injuries caused by criminal misuse of their weapons thanks to the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, they are not exempt or immune from being sued.”…