A federal jury in New York ruled that gun manufacturers are not liable in a 1994 shooting incident that left one yeshiva student dead and another gravely wounded. The parents of Aaron Halberstam, who died in the attack, and Nachum Sosonkin, who lives with a bullet in his head, filed the suit claiming that the manufacturers bore some responsibility for the shooting. Fourteen yeshiva students were in a van when it was riddled with bullets by a Muslim livery cab driver. Prosecutors contend that Rashid Baz fired at the students in retaliation for the murder of Muslim worshipers in Hebron several days earlier.
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