Posted by The United States Supreme Court rules against the city and victims of gun violence.
The court threw out a complaint seeking to revive lawsuits against the firearms industry, charging they knowingly sold guns that could be sold on illegal markets.
This puts an end to lawsuits first filed in 2000.
Federal appeals courts in New York and Washington threw out the complaints after Congress passed a law in 2005 giving the gun industry broad immunity against such lawsuits.
The city was not seeking monetary damages, just a court order for gun makers to more closely monitor dealers who frequently sell guns later used to commit crimes.
Source: NY1
