This episode examines whether the machinery of SB8 - the Texas anti-abortion law enforced entirely by private actors - can be adapted to regulate firearm sales.
Specifically, it looks at the recent $70 million settlement by Remington of claims by family members of victims of the 2011 Sandy Hook shooting, and the characterization of those claims by the Connecticut Supreme Court's 2019 opinion in Soto v. Bushmaster Firearms.
It concludes that if any such law could be drafted consistently with the broad federal grant of immunity in the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, it would be based on the analysis of that statute in the Soto opinion.
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