In the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, it’s possible there will be more litigation against the gun industry, an expert on legal issues surrounding gun control in the United States said.
The Kalamazoo, Mich., shootings are reminiscent of the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, which gave rise to a landmark lawsuit against the gun manufacturer—Bushmaster, which is currently under fire in the Sandy Hook lawsuit, said Timothy Lytton, a professor of law at Georgia State University's College of Law.
While the massacre may fuel more litigation against the industry and strengthen the debate over stricter gun control measures, with over 350 million firearms already in private hands, even the most ambitious proposals to limit firearms sales are unlikely to end high profile massacres.
“The politics of gun control and the Constitutional limits on restricting private gun ownership are such that we can expect to see these sorts of shootings regularly in the future,” said Lytton, author of the book Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts.
Lytton has appeared in a number of media outlets as an expert on gun violence and lawsuits against the industry, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, the Boston Globe, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, MSNBC and 11 Alive as well as several public radio stations.
Read Lytton’s recent article about Obama’s executive order on guns at https://theconversation.com/obamas-executive-order-on-guns-is-mostly-political-theater-52758.
Read more about Timothy Lytton at law.gsu.edu/profile/timothy-d-lytton.
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