gunmaker

[guhn-mey-ker]

noun

1. a person or company that makes guns. gun.

Other Word Forms

• gunmaking noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of gunmaker¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; gun ¹, maker

Example Sentences

The lawsuit includes the gunmaker, Meta, and Activision, the company behind Call of Duty.

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Now he’s filing a lawsuit against the gunmaker Daniel Defense, the video game company Activision, and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, on behalf of families in Uvalde.

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This law was passed to essentially get rid of those lawsuits, to say that you cannot sue a gunmaker as a result of harms caused by people who have committed crimes with their weapons.

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The Protection of Lawful Commerce and Arms Act has a few exceptions: If a gunmaker sells a defective product, for example, then then they can be sued; if a gunmaker breaches a contract, they can be sued.

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Basically what that means is that if you’re going to sue a gunmaker, you have to sue them saying that you were harmed because they violated a law that’s specifically related to the sale or marketing of firearms.

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