Mike Levin: “This is a very significant amendment we will be voting on tomorrow. It has been stated by the manager of the bill--and…”

“This is a very significant amendment we will be voting on tomorrow. It has been stated by the manager of the bill--and now I am reading his words--that we must insist the law be clear, unambiguous. That the officer--here an officer who was injured by a weapon--have a day in court if he is harmed--here I am skipping over a few words to get to the point--by someone who through negligence has caused a firearm to get into the hand of a criminal. The amendment we will be voting on tomorrow afternoon makes it very clear lawsuits will be permitted if the defendant's own gross negligence and own recklessness was a proximate cause of somebody's death or injury. The Senator from Idaho has said on a number of occasions people should not be held liable for somebody else's criminal act. I do not disagree with that. What my amendment says is someone can be liable for their own recklessness and their own negligence. I make it clear in my amendment we are talking about gross negligence.”