Coker v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the \principal purpose” of the Act was \to prevent those deemed too dangerous or irresponsible due to age, criminal background, or incompetency from obtaining firearms and ammunition”
• recognizing violation of § 922 constitutes negligence per se if the state where the sale occurs recognizes that violation of a penal statute is negligence per se
• allegation in complaint that defendant negligently sold ammunition to a minor in violation of section 922(b)(1) sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss in negligence per se claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).