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US gun shop ordered to pay millions to injured police officers
Former Milwaukee police officers Graham Kunisch, left, and Bryan Norberg, who were shot and seriously wounded by a gun purchased at a Wisconsin gun store.
Jurors ordered a Wisconsin gun store to pay nearly US$6 million ($9m) on Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by two Milwaukee police officers who were shot and seriously wounded by a gun purchased at the store.
The ruling came in a negligence lawsuit filed by the officers against Badger Guns, a shop in suburban Milwaukee that authorities have linked to hundreds of firearms found at crime scenes.
The lawsuit said the shop ignored several warning signs that the gun used to shoot the officers was being sold to a so-called straw buyer who was illegally purchasing the weapon for someone else.
Jurors sided with the officers, ruling that the store was negligent.
Officer Bryan Norberg and former Officer Graham Kunisch were both shot in the face after they stopped Julius Burton for riding his bike on the sidewalk in the summer of 2009. Investigators said Burton got the weapon, a Taurus .40-calibre handgun, a month before the confrontation, after giving US$40 to another man, Jacob Collins, to make the purchase at the store in West Milwaukee.
One bullet shattered eight of Norberg's teeth, blew through his cheek and lodged into his shoulder. He remains on the force but said his wounds have made his work difficult. Kunisch was shot several times, resulting in him losing an eye and part of the frontal lobe of his brain. He said the wounds forced him to retire.
Jurors ordered the store to pay Norberg US$1.5 million and Kunisch US$3.6 million. The jury also ruled the store must pay US$730,000 in punitive damages.
Jurors sided with the officers, ruling that the store was negligent.
Officer Bryan Norberg and former Officer Graham Kunisch were both shot in the face after they stopped Julius Burton for riding his bike on the sidewalk in the summer of 2009. Investigators said Burton got the weapon, a Taurus .40-calibre handgun, a month before the confrontation, after giving US$40 to another man, Jacob Collins, to make the purchase at the store in West Milwaukee.
One bullet shattered eight of Norberg's teeth, blew through his cheek and lodged into his shoulder. He remains on the force but said his wounds have made his work difficult. Kunisch was shot several times, resulting in him losing an eye and part of the frontal lobe of his brain. He said the wounds forced him to retire.
Jurors ordered the store to pay Norberg US$1.5 million and Kunisch US$3.6 million. The jury also ruled the store must pay US$730,000 in punitive damages.
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Badger Guns has been linked to hundreds of firearms found at crime scenes.
The officers' lawyer, Patrick Dunphy, said on Tuesday that he said his clients "feel very relieved", though he anticipates years of appeals.
Defense attorneys declined to comment. The owners and operators of the gun shop weren't in court to hear the verdict.
SALESMAN 'DUPED'
The liability issues raised in the case gained attention in the US presidential campaign, when Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton recently said she would push for a repeal of the George W. Bush-era gun law that Badger Guns' lawyers said shielded the store from such claims.
The gun shop's attorneys denied wrongdoing and said the owner at the time of the sale, Adam Allan, couldn't be held financially responsible for crimes connected to a weapon sold at his shop and that the clerk who sold the weapon didn't intentionally commit a crime. Rather, they said the salesman had been duped by Collins and Burton, who went out of their way to deceive him.
Badger Guns, previously known as Badger Outdoors, has since closed and been replaced by a gun shop called Brew City Shooters Supply. All three entities have been run by Allan family members.
Authorities have said more than 500 firearms recovered from crime scenes had been traced back to Badger Guns and Badger Outdoors, making it the "No.1 crime gun dealer in America", according to a 2005 charging document from an unrelated case.
Norberg and Kunisch cited that detail in their lawsuit, saying it showed a history of negligence.
Burton pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree attempted intentional homicide and is serving an 80-year sentence. Collins, the man who purchased the gun, got a two-year sentence after pleading guilty to making a straw purchase for an underage buyer.
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