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Written by Monte Frank and Michael Koskoff.

Since Sandy Hook approximately three years ago, there have been hundreds of mass shootings. After each, there is an outcry for increasing the scope of federal law to require the more extensive and inclusive use of background checks. But, after each horrific event, Congress does nothing, and we brace ourselves for the next senseless killing. To be sure, Congress needs to strengthen federal law, but there would still remain the problem that much gun violence is caused by those who are not the purchasers. That issue could be solved by pursuing another path that would immediately improve gun safety and reduce violence without the enactment of a single federal law. That strategy is to encourage the manufacture and sale of “smart guns.” It will happen if Congress simply repeals a federal regulatory law that grants gun manufacturers immunity from product liability suits — suits that can be brought against sellers of all other consumer products sold in the United States.

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