A promising new force in the fight for gun control has arrived on the scene. A coalition that includes corporate litigators from seven of the nation’s leading law firms is taking aim at some of the most glaring flaws in gun safety. One is Congress’s restriction of the government’s ability to conduct basic public health research on gun deaths. The lawyers will also seek ways to challenge state lawmakers who have invited millions of citizens to pack guns in public buildings and businesses.

The coalition, called the Firearms Accountability Counsel Task Force, plans to devote tens of millions of dollars in free legal services to this work. Its goal is a unified attack on “the worsening scourge of gun violence that plagues this country,” said Richard Alexander, chairman of Arnold & Porter, a member firm. The coalition’s cooperating lawyers are already drafting lawsuits, which could be announced as soon as next month.

The timing could not be better. President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are zealously committed to the National Rifle Association’s regressive “safety” agenda of marketing guns to more and more citizens. As a candidate, Mr. Trump talked favorably of people arming to defend themselves in gunfights.

The coalition faces a crazy quilt of state and national gun laws. But it has the resources and legal talent to persist, and more firms are expected to join, according to one of the founding groups, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.The law firms are applying classic pro bono legal skills, and their efforts will be highly coordinated.

The legal fight has been made difficult by Congress’s decision in 2005 to shield the arms industry from damage suits — an outrageous protection no other industry has. But the coalition is considering new approaches, drawing upon public safety, antitrust and property laws to tackle problems like the widespread legalization of guns in public places and commercial establishments. Another concern is the pre-emption of local gun ordinances by state laws approved by politicians in the sway of the gun lobby.

These legal struggles are expected to be incremental rather than sweeping in their effect. But at least the N.R.A., which supported Mr. Trump’s candidacy with $30 million in ads, will be facing a potent new adversary. A nation appalled at Congress’s indifference to gun violence can only be heartened.

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back of the bus, hippies.

The derp is strong with them.

The trump DOJ should sue all of those firms for organized attempts to violate the civil rights of all Americans.  Label them hate groups and watch heads explode.

lol eat shit

"Classic Pro Bono legal Skills"

This is the reason we need more people like NOLO on the BOD of the NRA. I hate the fact that everything one does requires a lawyer but that is a reality . If we are going to fight this war we need to crush the opposition. In my opinion this is a WWII type no holds bared bombing mission , inflict the damage to get the proper results.

Ah yes, more efforts to make the US as safe and responsible with its firearms laws as Mexico.