If anyone has a big dog in this fight, I do.

I’m a prominent figure in my trade, to which I have devoted 46 years now. Numerous of my clients have had occasion to defend themselves with firearms my company has worked on, and more than a few have also been students of mine, Jerry Jones, and the other great instructors with whom I have been privileged to work and call my dearest friends.

Never, not once AFAIK, has our work or our instruction been made an issue in any case, criminal or civil.

I know everyone there is to know amongst my industry peers. I’m unable to recall any who were sued as a consequence of their work being involved in a shooting.

The only reasons I’ve been in court have been due to my work as a Deputy, as an expert witness in firearms-related cases, as the subject in two use of force cases.

I’ve looked into this controversial subject in some detail. I just don’t find much of anything concrete in West’s or elsewhere which supports the argument that REASONABLE enhancements (which, as a designer with input into some of the firearms we specialise in, I can be called upon to define) and upgrades necessarily place a likely foreseeable firearm user in undue criminal jeopardy, and scant examples in which an otherwise righteous shoot resulted in civil penalties due to modifications.

Please show us compelling examples from your practise, as well as the many which lay out there beyond our means to find.

-Bruce