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Taking their best shot; fed up with gun violence, some cities may copy an Illinois father's tobacco-style suit against gun makers

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Cigarette makers' retreat on smoking liability has caused a new optimism among anti-gun activists that suits against gun makers for criminals' use of their products might in the future be successful, although almost all prior suits have favored gun makers. Negligent marketing and public nuisance, the latter based on the idea that widely available guns threaten public right to health and safety, are two newer legal theories being advocated. Critics claim that gun makers feed the criminal market by devising guns that are cheap and easy to conceal.

Cases, Product liability, Firearms, Illinois, Products liability, Firearms industry, Firearms industry and trade, states

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Irrefutable evidence

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Audio and video recordings of police interrogations with suspects may become standard procedure. Recording interrogations will help in ending the problem of ambiguous testimony regarding a suspect's statements to police. Several important legal issues remain before taping is mandatory, such as secret recordings and how to penalize a police department for not recording an interrogation.

United States, Testimony, Video tape recorders and recording, Videocassette recorders, Videotape recording, Police questioning, Audio tapes, Audiotapes

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