{"id":6604,"date":"2026-11-05T06:38:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/what-makes-a-firearm-legally-defective\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T06:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T12:38:05","slug":"what-makes-a-firearm-legally-defective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/what-makes-a-firearm-legally-defective\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Firearm Legally Defective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (STL.News) A firearm is supposed to work safely every single time someone pulls the trigger. When a gun fails because of how it was made, the law may respond. A malfunctioning gun falls squarely within the defect claims Wheeles &amp; Garmon Defective Firearms Attorneys takes on. Understanding the legal meaning of defective helps owners spot problems before an injury happens. A firearm that fails in a way wear cannot explain may have a defect. Faulty gun lawyers study whether the failure traces back to the maker. Design Flaws Built Into the Gun A design defect exists when every unit<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/what-makes-a-firearm-legally-defective\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(STL.News) A firearm is supposed to work safely every single time someone pulls the trigger. When a gun fails because of how it was made, the law may respond. A malfunctioning gun falls squarely within the defect claims Wheeles &amp;&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6606,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}