The City of Philadelphia cannot sue the gun industry for negligently distributing its products in a way that creates a public nuisance because “gun manufacturers are under no legal duty to protect citizens from the deliberate and unlawful use of their products,” a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
The city’s suit was fatally flawed, the court said, because it couldn’t show that the gun manufacturers were the “proximate cause” of the harm suffered by the city. Instead, the court said, the “causal chain” necessary to connect gun makers and gun crimes is “too attenuated.”
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