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Appeals court rules U.S. gun makers protected by law

By Richard Binder

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A U.S. appeals court in San Francisco yesterday rejected a bid by victims of a 1999 shooting rampage at a Jewish community center in Granada Hills to sue a federally licensed gun manufacturer and a distributor.

The court said the two American companies, Georgia-based Glock Inc. and RSR Wholesale Guns Seattle Inc., were protected by a law passed by Congress in 2005, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. But the court said a third company, Beijing-based China North Industries Corp., or Norinco, was not protected by the law because it was not federally licensed. The panel said the lawsuit could proceed against that firm.

The case stems from a rampage in which white supremacist Buford Furrow wounded five people, including three children, at the community center and then killed a Filipino-American postal worker, Joseph Ileto, in Chatsworth on Aug. 10, 1999. Furrow later pleaded guilty to 16 federal charges and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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