Woman Struck in Cheek By Bullet Fired in Adjacent Room Shauna Lovett, a 19-year-old from Laurel, Mississippi, was sitting on a living room couch with her boyfriend, when she was struck in the cheek by a bullet that came from an adjacent room. She was transported to the hospital with a bullet lodged in the …
Category: The Taurus Pistol Defect
THE TAURUS PISTOL DEFECT
In 2017, the Brazilian company Forjas Taurus (“Taurus”)1 recalled nearly a million of its popular pistols2 in the United States as part of the settlement of a class action lawsuit.3 The guns involved have a defect that sometimes causes them to fire even when the gun’s safety was in its “on” position and/or when the …