In the days leading up to the auction, Brandon’s case received amazing publicity: 11 countries, over 300 news reports and articles.
In the days leading up to the auction, Brandon’s case received amazing publicity: 11 countries, over 300 news reports and articles.
The government’s list, revealed to the public for the first time in July, 2002, by TIME magazine, of the Top Ten Crime Guns, which included the Bryco .380. Brandon’s attorney would be the first to discover the gun’s defect only three months later, and that Bryco’s owner knew of the defect and had put the gun on the market anyway.
Here’s your second Move To Fire excerpt, lightly edited. A bit long, also from the book’s foreword, but this will give you all an insight you almost certainly didn’t have about what it means to have certain guns on the streets:
“…[Move To Fire] corrects misconceptions about what happened to a little boy… why it happened, and recounts how the unwavering work of one man resulted in a measure of justice for a family, and a society, unjustly wounded by the status quo.
But underlying it all is something so crucially relevant yet widely unknown that without it there would be no Move To Fire story.
…consumer products are regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission… to protect the public against unreasonable risks of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products.
But not if that consumer product is a gun…
…there have been and are defective guns that can fire without the trigger being touched, but they cannot be recalled or taken off the market except by the manufacturer… And no government entity can force a gun manufacturer to recall or remove all those models.
So, the worst extension of all this is that an unethical gun manufacturer could choose to create and sell a gun it knew to be defective, and, still, no entity could stop that from happening.
That happened.”