"Interesting sidenote to the Elliot case : Gun Shop Held Liable * On January 16 a jury ordered Guns Unlimited , a Virginia Beach , Wa.-based gun shop , to pay $ 100,000 to the family of a teacher who was shot and killed by a student . The teen-ager 's 40-year-old cousin had bought the gun illegally for the boy at the store . Daren Farley was a teacher at the Atlantic Shores Christian School in Virginia Beach when she was fatally short with a 9mm pistol in December 1988 during a rampage by student Nicholas Elliott . Elliott also wounded another teacher with the pistol that had been bought three months earlier at Guns Unlimited . According to Associated Press , the cousin , Curtis Lee Williams , testified he bought the $ 300 gun with money given him by Elliott , then 15 . Williams , who served a 15-month prison term for lying on the federal paperwork involved in the sale , claimed Elliott was with him in the store , told the sales clerk which gun he wanted to get , andcarried the firearm from the store . Tony Sassengill , the sales clerk , said he could not remember Williams or Elliott . He said he knew he could not sell any handgun to a minor and would not have allowed such a transaction as described by Williams . Farley 's family had sought $ 3 million . Randy Singer , the family 's attorney , asked for a new hearing on the issue of damages . Peter Manson Jr. , an attorney representing Guns Unlimited , said the case against the gun store was based entirely on the word of Williams , who was convicted of lying on the sales form , and that there was no way the clerk could have known the gun would be used to commit a crime . Manson has asked for a new trial . Anti-gun groups immediately heralded the decision . Dennis Henigan of the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence told AP this was the first time a jury had held a gun shop liable for damages in such a purchase . The legend lives on - Colt files for bankruptcy | Shooting Industry | Find Articles at BNET"
"So the scumbag judge or judge and jury did a tremendous miscarriage of justice then . But this is off the topic . Its Black on Black gun crime , not judicial activism ."
"Manson Jr. , an attorney representing Guns Unlimited , said the case against the gun store was based entirely on the word of Williams , who was convicted of lying on the sales form , and that there was no way the clerk could have known the gun would be used to commit a crime ."
"the scumbag judge or judge and jury did a tremendous miscarriage of justice then"