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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 1875936" data-attributes="member: 44954">MILWAUKEE (AP) — A lawyer for a pair of Milwaukee police officers suing a gun shop for negligence told jurors Monday that the store should have to pay several million dollars in damages for selling a gun that was used to wound his clients.The case has drawn attention because it could set gun law precedent if jurors find the gun shop owners can be held financially responsible for a crime committed with a weapon purchased at their store.Authorities have said more than 500 firearms recovered from crime scenes had been traced back to Badger Guns and Badger Outdoors, making it the &quot;No. 1 crime gun dealer in America,&quot; according to a 2005 charging document from an unrelated case. A former federal agent has also said the shop had failed take necessary precautions to prevent straw purchases.The case recently surfaced in the presidential campaigns after Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton said she would push for a repeal of the George W. Bush-era gun law that lawyers say shields their client from liability claims.<a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9f6fac0e795948e7835e71df66bb7b84/attorney-gun-shop-should-pay-wounded-officers-millions" target="_blank">http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9f6fac0e795948e7835e71df66bb7b84/attorney-gun-shop-should-pay-wounded-officers-millions</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 1875936, member: 44954"] MILWAUKEE (AP) — A lawyer for a pair of Milwaukee police officers suing a gun shop for negligence told jurors Monday that the store should have to pay several million dollars in damages for selling a gun that was used to wound his clients. The case has drawn attention because it could set gun law precedent if jurors find the gun shop owners can be held financially responsible for a crime committed with a weapon purchased at their store. Authorities have said more than 500 firearms recovered from crime scenes had been traced back to Badger Guns and Badger Outdoors, making it the "No. 1 crime gun dealer in America," according to a 2005 charging document from an unrelated case. A former federal agent has also said the shop had failed take necessary precautions to prevent straw purchases. The case recently surfaced in the presidential campaigns after Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton said she would push for a repeal of the George W. Bush-era gun law that lawyers say shields their client from liability claims. [URL]http://bigstory.ap.org/article/9f6fac0e795948e7835e71df66bb7b84/attorney-gun-shop-should-pay-wounded-officers-millions[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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