CALIFORNIA COURT DECISION UNDERSCORES URGENT NEED FOR S. 659 . . . The decision last week by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a lawsuit against Glock and RSR demonstrates the dire need for the Senate to pass the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (S. 659) to stop "junk" lawsuits against gun industry. The suit seeks to blame Glock and RSR for the heinous criminal actions of crazed, white supremacist Buford Furrow, who wounded three children at a Jewish day care center and shot to death a postal worker in California in 1999. Glock sold the pistol to a police department that later sold it to a licensed dealer who in turn sold it to a consumer who passed a NICS check, and RSR never owned or sold the pistol. "This decision is the 'poster child' for S659," said Lawrence G. Keane, vice president and general counsel of NSSF. The House passed the bill by a wide margin earlier this year ('03) and the Senate is expected to take up the legislation early next year ('04). It is critical that industry members, hunters and shooters contact their U.S. senators and urge them to support S. 659. Visit NSSF's Legislative Action Center to find out if your senators support the legislation and, if they do not, send them an e-mail urging them to do so.