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Personal Injury & Torts

Oct. 2, 2001

Moving Target

For now, lawsuits premised on the notion that guns cause harm and do not benefit society will not get far.

        By Timothy B. Bradford and Esperanza Cervantes
        
        On July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri stormed the law offices of Pettit & Martin in downtown San Francisco. Armed with a .45 caliber pistol and two TEC-9/DC9 semiautomatic assault pistols purchased in Nevada to avoid California's gun-control laws, Ferri mounted an attack o...

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