Police Officer Thomas Delahanty was shot by John Hinckley , Jr. with a Röhm revolver during his failed assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981 . Delahanty later sued Röhm with the argument that small , cheap guns have no purpose except for crime , and thus that the company should be held responsible . The suit was subsequently rejected by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in a suit that has served as case law for other similar product liability cases
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Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
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