US Supreme Court rebuffs challenge to New York law allowing suits against gun industry

The Supreme Court declined to hear a gun-industry appeal, leaving in place New York’s 2021 law that allows lawsuits against gun makers, wholesalers and dealers.
The law requires industry safeguards against trafficking, theft and “straw purchasers,” and lets state/local officials and private citizens sue over unsafe sales.
Major manufacturers (Smith & Wesson, Glock, Sig Sauer) and groups like the NRA argued a 2005 federal law shields them, but the 2nd Circuit rejected that and the Supreme Court passed on review.