Biden: If I could do one thing on guns, I would allow people to sue gun manufacturers

President Joe Biden mentioned Thursday that getting Congress to finish the broad immunity that gun-makers have from being sued for shootings is a prime precedence for his administration.

“Most people don’t realize: The only industry in America, billion-dollar industry, that can’t be sued, exempt from being sued, are gun manufacturers,” Biden mentioned during a White House speech where he announced a series of executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence.

“Imagine how different it would be had that same exemption been available to tobacco companies, who knew and lied about the danger they were causing” deaths from most cancers, Biden mentioned as he known as on Congress to revoke the gun business’s safety from civil legal responsibility claims.

Biden spoke on the day a gunman killed five people in South Carolina, one of 4 mass shootings within the U.S. up to now three weeks. The others have been in Georgia, Colorado and California.

Congress in 2005 handed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which gave gun manufacturers a major diploma of immunity from being sued for cash damages by victims of gun violence and their kinfolk.

“If I get one thing on my list, Lord came down and said, ‘Joe, you get one of these,’ give me that one,” Biden mentioned.

“Because I tell you what, there would be a come-to-the-Lord moment these folks would have, real quickly.”

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki instructed reporters later that Biden is asking for lawmakers in Congress to reintroduce previous payments that sought to repeal the safety act.

A Pennsylvania appeals courtroom final September dominated that the act was unconstitutional. The determination was the primary by any courtroom to conclude that the legislation violated the tenth Amendment. The ruling didn’t have an effect on the legislation’s software nationwide.