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T�tulo: Move to Fire : A Family's Tragedy, a Lone Attorney, and a Teenager's Victory over a Corrupt Gun Maker
Editor: Story and Pictures
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2015
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0996567208
ISBN 13: 9780996567206
Encuadernaci�n: Encuadernaci�n de tapa blanda
Edici�n: First Edition 2015, Story and Pictures.
Estado: Very Good
Peso: 0,992 libras

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No parents should ever experience the traumatic, lifetime effects of their child being shot, especially when the bullet is from a defective gun made by a company with a history of bystanders and users being maimed and killed by its poorly made products.

When seven year-old son Brandon Maxfield was accidentally shot and seriously wounded by a defectively designed handgun, all his mother Sue prayed for was that he live. Comatose, on a ventilator in intensive care, the top of his spine shattered, she whispered into his tiny ear that If he woke up, she promised to be his arms and legs for the rest of his life.

Brandon not only lived, permanently paralyzed from the neck down, ten years after the shooting he and a lone, determined attorney became the focus of national, then international news when Brandon secured a first of its kind, twenty-five million dollar product liability judgment against the gun maker. When the company and its owner declared bankruptcy to avoid paying the judgment, and schemed to secretly resurrect the company, Brandon and his attorney created a plan to bid for the company’s remaining assets in a bankruptcy auction and destroy its inventory of defective guns so that, as Brandon himself explained, no kid ever had to go through what he went through.

Move To Fire follows Brandon’s and his family’s life before and after the accident, and explores the broader community and societal costs of a tragic accidental shooting. It also details the extent of the gun maker’s efforts to hide millions of dollars made from handguns so poorly manufactured, and of such inferior materials, the guns became known to law enforcement as crime guns, junk guns and, infamously, Saturday night specials.

Move To Fire’s compelling narrative illuminates events that captivated media outlets and people around the world. It is a cautionary tale, to be studied as gun manufacturing surges unregulated and exempt from product safety oversight, ghost guns proliferate, and already fragile firearm regulations are continually weakened even as firearm-related incidents remain the leading cause of children’s deaths.

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From the foreword of Move To Fire -- "...no government entity can force a gun manufacturer to recall a defective gun... an unethical gun manufacturer could choose to create and sell a gun it knew to be defective, and no entity could stop that from happening.""That happened." A decade after seven-year-old Brandon Maxfield was paralyzed in an accidental shooting by a defective gun, he and his attorney accomplished what the government couldn't do, and the firearms industry and gun safety groups failed to do - hold the defective gun’s manufacturer accountable for creating millions of low quality, dangerous guns so connected to tragedy that they were known as junk guns. When the gunmaker filed bankruptcy to avoid paying his half of a historic $50,000,000 product liability award to Brandon, then schemed to resurrect the company, the teen launched a campaign to acquire the company himself and stop it from producing thousands more defective guns. Brandon’s and attorney Richard Ruggieri’s efforts attracted national support, and derision, as their story became international news. Michael W. Harkins’ compelling narrative is an illuminating account of the people and events that captivated the world’s leading media outlets in nine countries, and also reveals why millions of defectively designed guns like the one that almost killed Brandon Maxfield are still on the streets.

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Better World Books (https://www.BetterWorldBooks.com) is a for-profit, socially conscious business and a global online bookseller that collects and sells new and used books online, matching each purchase with a book donation. Each sale generates funds for literacy and education initiatives in the U.S., the UK, and around the world. Since its launch in 2003, Better World Books has raised $33 million for libraries and literacy, donated over 32 million books, and reused or recycled more than 397 million books.

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