Steve Shadowen

We are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico.

We've consulted with some of the world's leading experts on this specific issue, and we are convinced that we're going to win that issue.

Everything started building from, 'let's do something about El Paso' into this is huge 'the negligence of the gun industry is immense,' so let's do something that tried to solve the bigger picture. we are particularly interested in getting the manufacturers going forward to change the way they do business, to tighten up their distribution systems so that they don't continue to supply unlimited amounts of guns to gun dealers who are systematically selling them to straw purchasers and others who are engaged in trafficking into Mexico.

The merits of the case are strongly in our favor and then we have to get around this immunity statute which we think we’re going to win, that statute just simply doesn’t apply. It only applies when you’re in the United States.