Sig Sauer, faced with lawsuits over a popular pistol, gets protection in New Hampshire

Concord, NH (AP) -Popular, faced with assembly cases over a pistol, New Hampshire-based Sig Sauer, asked for a new state law-and there is Take the weapon manufacturer to court.

Supporters in the Legislative Assembly, led by the Republic, said the law was necessary to help a large employer. Cases, Sig Sauer’s P320 gun can be released without triggering, the company can make a claim that the rejected claim, he says.

The law includes all weapons manufacturers and federal firearm licenses in the allegations of product obligation regarding the “absence or existence of four private security features. One of these features is an external mechanical security that the people who sued Sig Sauer should be standard in the P320 based on the design. Claims can still be made on production defects.

In New Hampshire and elsewhere, those who sued Sig Sauer are among the police, federal law enforcement officers and other experienced weapons users from multiple states that say they were injured by the weapons.

In some cases, the manufacturer reigned. Two attractives recently Multimillion Dollar DecisionsIn Pennsylvania and Georgia.

George Abrahams A US army who won the case in Philadelphia, veteran and picture contractor, said the P320 sheath, put it in the pocket of its athletic pants and squeezed it before going down.

Olmak All I did was to go down the staircase and there was a high explosion, and then compelling pain and bleeding, dedi he said to the Associated Press in 2022.

The company, which employs more than 2,000 people in a state with on leave arms laws, says that P320 has internal security mechanisms and that it enters the most meticulous test and evaluation of any firearms by the military and law enforcement officers in the world ”. The problem says that the design is not a user error or incompatible cases.

“Do you want people to be able to sue car manufacturers because they sell cars without air conditioners?” Terry Roy, a Republican from Deerfield, told House during the discussion in May.

The competitors criticized the bill as a special exemption in the law of responsibility that was never granted to another New Hampshire company.

“I think there is a difference between helping a great employer and creating an exemption that does not give them their days in court, Dav said David Meuse, a democratic state representative from Portsmouth. The region covers Newington, where Sig Sauer is the center.

The 2005 Federal Law gives the arms industry widely legal immunity. According to the Giffords Law Center, New Hampshire was already among the 32 states that somehow accepted arms immunity laws to prevent weapon violence. Some states also abolished or weakened the immune regulations of the arms industry.

A Sig Sauer manager asked the New Hampshire deputies in April two weeks after the last case of Pennsylvania -based law firm on March 26 in the federal court in Concord on March 26. The company represents more than 100 people who have filed such cases, including more than 70 in New Hampshire.

Bob Bobby Cox, Vice President of State Affairs for the Company, said, iz We go out of town with all these court cases, and every court case we need to fight takes money from the workers that we can employ and employ technology, ”he said.

The measure came into force after the Republican government Kelly Ayotte signed on May 23rd. Legislative bodies said this is not valid for existing cases. However, for Sig Sauer, lawyers mentioned as part of the allegations of rejecting the March case or transferring and transferring the claims of 22 plaintiffs to the court areas where they lived. A hearing on the subject was determined for 21 July.

Ayotte’s office did not respond to an AP request looking for a comment, but said to Keene Sentinel that he was proud to protect the New Hampshire companies that create thousands of good jobs from meaningless cases ”.

“Non-state lawyers who want to make money will not find a place in New Hampshire,” Ayotte’s office said in a statement sent to the newspaper.

The plaintiff’s chief lawyer Robert Zimmerman in Pennsylvania said that the purpose of the cases was to change the design of the weapon, so that it was safe for people who use it.

Zimmerman, New Hampshire, was chosen because the federal rules allow cases against a company in his state, Zimmerman said. These cases were appointed to a federal judge in Concord.

Zimmerman said, “SIG, this case is strategically centralized dedication and every customer to go to 100 different courthouse and both sides to slow down the process of achieving a fair result, which is a trial decided to be the principles.” He said.

Cases accuse Sig Sauer of defective product design, marketing and neglect.

During the Assembly discussion, Roy said that he had a P320 and was one of his favorite weapons, “But you can buy them safely or unsafe.”

The plaintiffs say that the “majority of the sold P320 models did not come with safety safety.

Sig Sauer says that some users prefer the faster draw time given because there is no external security; Others want feature for additional security.

In 2017, Sig Sauer offered a “voluntary upgrade için to include an alternative design that reduces the weight of the trigger as well as other features. The plaintiff’s lawyers say that raising does not stop unintentional discharge.

Daniel Pi, an assistant professor at the Franklin Pierce Faculty of Franklin Pierce, said, “This is not a wonderful look,” he said.

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