NEW YORK SUES GUNMAKERS.

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Accusing gun manufacturers of making guns easier to conceal and even more deadly, New York became the first state to bring a lawsuit against nine major gun manufacturers, three importers and 12 wholesalers, charging they violate the state's public nuisance law, according to The Christian Science Monitor. The goal is to get them to stop designing guns that are attractive to criminals. "Instead of using money to create safer weapons, such as guns with internal locking devices or personalized guns that can't be used by unauthorized users, they've spent their resources making guns more powerful, easier to...