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Outgunned No More

Outgunned No More

Outgunned No More

The New Era of Firearms Industry Accountability
Linda S. Mullenix, University of Texas, Austin
September 2025
Not yet published - available from September 2025
Paperback
9781009637275

    Outgunned No More comprehensively addresses the changed legal landscape under which governments and private citizens can sue the gun industry for contributing to and sustaining the gun violence epidemic in the US and Mexico. The book canvasses federal and state efforts to regulate firearms through gun control measures, arguing that these regulatory measures have proven ineffective to stem gun violence. Instead, recourse to robust consumer protection and mass tort litigation provides the best avenue for holding the firearms industry accountable. Chapters highlight three important interventions: the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, the Connecticut Sandy Hook Elementary School litigation, and the recent enactment of consumer protection and public nuisance firearms statutes in nine states. These innovative statutes have created an avenue for litigation that overcomes the firearm industry's historical immunity. Outgunned No More concludes that a firearms mass tort litigation, modeled after the resolution of claims in the tobacco industry, is the best path forward.

    • Provides a narrative description of firearms regulation and accountability in context of mass tort litigation (1970–2024)
    • llustrates the ineffectiveness of regulation to stem gun violence
    • Outlines how the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement provides a template for an industrywide firearms accountability settlement

    Product details

    September 2025
    Paperback
    9781009637275
    280 pages
    228 × 152 mm
    Not yet published - available from September 2025

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Limited Effective Firearms Regulation and the Second Amendment Challenge to Gun Control
    • 2. Suing the Firearms Industry: The Failure of Traditional Tort Litigation Through the Twenty-First Century
    • 3. The 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: A New Mass Tort Paradigm and Lessons from Tobacco for Firearms Accountability
    • 4. The Firearms Industry Strikes Back: Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Acts (PLCAA)
    • 5. The Third Wave of Firearms Litigation: The Futility of Suing Gun Defendants Under PLCAA
    • 6. Inroads into LCAA: The Sandy Hook Elementary School Litigation and the Predicate Statute Exception
    • 7. Zellnor Myrie and the First New York and New Jersey Firearms Public Nuisance Statutes
    • 8. California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, and Washington: Further Firearms Public Nuisance and Industry Accountability Initiatives
    • 9. The Extraterritoriality of Firearms Accountability: Mexico Sues the Firearms Industry
    • 10. Firearms Industry Accountability: The Emerging Mass Tort Litigation.
      Author
    • Linda S. Mullenix , University of Texas, Austin

      Linda S. Mullenix holds the Morris and Rita Atlas Chair in Advocacy at the University of Texas School of Law. Mullenix has been a Supreme Court Fellow, a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, and held the Fulbright Senior Distinguished Chair in Law (Trento, Italy). She is an elected Life Member of the American Law Institute, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the American Bar Foundation. She is the author of Public Nuisance: The New Mass Tort Frontier (Cambridge University Press 2024).