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VALENTINE v. ON TARGET, INC.

No. 8, Sept. Term, 1997.

727 A.2d 947 (1999)

353 Md. 544

Vincent N. VALENTINE, et al. v. ON TARGET, INC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 19, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarke F. Ahlers, Columbia, (Sharon E. Haynie of Houston, TX, on brief), for petitioners.

Kevin J. McCarthy (Heather J. Kelly, McCarthy, Bacon & Costello, L.L.P., on brief), Lanham, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, MARVIN H. SMITH, (Retired, specially assigned) and ROBERT L. KARWACKI, (Retired, specially assigned) JJ.

KARWACKI, Judge, Retired, Specially Assigned.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to answer the question of what, if any, tort duty a gun store owner owes to third parties to exercise reasonable care in the display and sale of handguns to prevent the theft and the illegal use of the handguns by others against third parties. Confining our analysis to the well pleaded facts in the complaint filed by petitioner in the instant case, the issue is properly limited...

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