If Democrats won a majority in both chambers of Congress as well as the White House, there would be a chance to repeal PLCAA. That result is still extremely remote even with the Axis media pimping for the anti-gun fanatics. According to Giffords Law Center, 32 states have a state-law version of PLCAA on the books that would still apply even if Congress successfully repealed PLCAA itself; the immunity would still apply for claims brought within those states’ courts. Conveniently, these states, a majority, are not mentioned in the ABA Report. In a trial brief, such an omission could be viewed as unethical deceit.
In the final section of the ABA resolution report, the ABA’s history of targeting guns is recounted, starting in 1996, years before PLCAA was enacted. Even then the ABA was calling for gun victims to have legal recourse against manufacturers through civil tort liability. After all, guns kill people, people are just otherwise innocent agents that gun manufacturers and retailers turn into criminals, killers and suicides.
The ABA is virtue-signaling to its ideological allies. A non-partisan bar association would better serve the law and the profession, but that, as the saying goes, “is not in the cards.”
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Pointer: Rob Thompson
Ethics Alarms 
Any policy choice that would directly benefit the profession economically is inherently a conflict of interest. Eliminating immunity from tort claims when the product functions as designed would open a huge potential market for trial lawyers who specialize in product liability from both sides. This type of behavior might be expected from private firms that lobby for rules that benefit them by either creating barriers to entry or would increase the top and/or bottom line. That is bad enough but this is the ultimate ambulance chasing scheme.
What deceptive trade practices do they have in mind?
What consumer protection laws do they have in mind?
I wonder if it’s (still) true that roughly 2 out of every 3 gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides. Pretty sure it is.
And I wonder if it’s (still) true that many of the “mass shooting” we hear about are also suicides…though in those cases the one committing suicide doesn’t want to die in anonymity, so he/she seeks 15 minutes of fame by volunteering others for death as well. Pretty sure it is.
As much as the Left wants it to be true, gun violence – while a problem in this country – is nowhere near the biggest problem. So again, I wonder if it’s (still) true that making firearms harder to purchase legally does nothing to move the needle in the right direction. Pretty sure it is.