Jury finds gun industry not to blame for violence

Thursday, May 15, 2003

NEW YORK -- Rejecting a lawsuit brought by the NAACP, a federal jury Wednesday cleared 45 gun manufacturers and distributors of allegations their marketing practices have stoked violence in black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

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