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Dropped Pistol Shot Owner, Alabama Jury Awards $1.25m Against Taurus
16 October 2009
Gadsden Times (Alabama)
GADSDEN, Alabama — An Etowah County Circuit Court jury on Thursday awarded a 28-year-old Boaz man a $1.25 million judgment in an unintended gun discharge case.
The jury awarded the judgment to Adam Maroney in a lawsuit against Taurus International Manufacturing.
The lawsuit, originally filed on Feb. 13, 2007, involved the unintended discharge of a PT111 9mm Millennium Taurus handgun in 2005.
Maroney, who owns a business in the Sardis area of Etowah County, was... (GunPolicy.org)