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On the recordFebruary 25, 2004
If I may ask the Senator a further question, if he will yield for a question, is it my understanding if we pass this bill that individuals--for example, the victims of the District of Columbia snipers--who are going after gun dealers who were selling massive amounts of weapons which they could not even account for, that we may in fact eliminate the lawsuits brought by the surviving families of the DC snipers against the gun dealers who were just negligently and wantonly selling guns without any consideration as to whether they could be misused?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Questioning the implications of a bill on lawsuits related to gun dealers and the DC sniper victims.

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