website search function may have encouraged illegal gun sale

[Bruenor]

Guess that's like "The store had money in the register, it encouraged the robber to stick them up"
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A Wisconsin appeals panel reversed a lower court decision this week dismissing a 2015 lawsuit against Armslist, instead allowing for the case to proceed.

In the 24-page ruling issued Thursday, Judge Brian Blanchard said the federal Communications Decency Act doesn’t shield Armslist from liability “arising from its own conduct in facilitating user activity,” agreeing the website’s search functions may have encouraged an illegal gun transfer between a private seller and a prohibited buyer who later used the firearm to murder three people, including his estranged wife.

[schmieg]

Sounds like this may develop into a First Amendment case.

[M-Quigley]

If I understand the appeals court decision correctly (and maybe I don't) this decision could apply to any third party entity that allows searches for guns for sale.

[TJW815]

Jury selection going to be mighty important on this one, if it gets that far.

I don’t see the Brady bunch allowing a settlement that doesn’t include shuttering the Armslist site.

[Curzyk]

If I understand the appeals court decision correctly (and maybe I don't) this decision could apply to any third party entity that allows searches for guns for sale.

That would include this forum.