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The Bulletin August 15, 2024
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An Indiana judge ruled that the City of Gary’s decades-old lawsuit against a suite of gunmakers can proceed despite a new state law designed to quash it. The law, passed by Indiana’s GOP supermajority this year, bans local governments from suing firearms manufacturers and sellers. In 1999, Gary’s mayor filed the suit against gunmakers that he believed were knowingly flooding his city with illegal firearms. [ProPublica/WFYI]

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In August 2023, the Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of Donald Willey, a locally infamous resident of the small Maryland community of Hoopers…

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