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Article: Guns in the courtroom.(Outgunned: Up Against the NRA--The First Complete Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control)(Book Review)
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- March 31, 2003
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Outgunned: Up Against the NRA--The First Complete Insider Account of the Battle Over Gun Control. By Peter Harry Brown and Daniel G. Abel. Free Press. 338 pp. $26.
In the late summer and fall of 1997, small news leaks began appearing that Mayor Edward Rendell of Philadelphia (who is now governor of Pennsylvania) was thinking about suing the firearms industry to recover the medical costs of treating gunshot victims, much as state attorneys general had sued tobacco manufacturers. "Rendell is quietly laying the groundwork for a lawsuit against gun manufacturers," read the first report, bringing a small smile to lips of readers who realized that tipping off the press ...