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Senate Democrats vow to stop legislation to block gun lawsuits
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press

… Washington "has a rich and sordid history of special interest sleaze," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. "The gun industry bill merely retires the trophy. This is as bad as it gets." [p6: Actually, I don't think this is worse than the contracts on Iraq that were just handed out, but it's a close second and a lot scarier to me personally]

… Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said that under the legislation, the families of the victims of last year's Washington-area sniper attacks would be barred by Congress from suing the Tacoma, Wash., gun shop that sold the gun to the alleged snipers. The shop has no record of that sale or the sales of more than 200 other guns, and the families believe it was negligent. [p6: Ya damn skippy they were negligent. You don't forget to record 200 gun sales. You just don't]