http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.gun07mar07.story
In a blow to gun-control advocates, the Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a gun maker cannot be
held liable for the accidental death of an East Baltimore toddler, who shot himself with his
father’s handgun, because the gun was improperly kept under a mattress.

The ruling rejects the contention by the mother of 3-year-old Jordan Garris that the Ruger
semiautomatic pistol should be considered defective because it lacked a lock to make it childproof.
The argument by Melissa M. Halliday failed in two lower courts and was blocked from going before a
Baltimore jury.