December 3, 2022, 12:29 PM
December 3, 2022, 12:29 PM
the emblematic rock band Guns N’ Roses sued a Texas-based online gun store for unauthorized use of his name as a spate of deadly shootings raged across the country.
The lawsuit, to which AFP had access, was initially reported by local media citing the portal City News Service. The band’s lawyers presented it on Thursday, December 1, in federal court in California, where Guns N’ Roses originate.
The claims against the firm Jersey Village Florist, which owns the online store texasgunsandroses.com, are for “false designation of origin, unfair competition, false suggestion,” among others, according to the document.
The online store sells guns, rifles, ammunition, body armor and even roses “without Guns N’ Roses authorization, license or consent.” The firm was not immediately available to provide its version.
The demand is led by the main partners W. Axl Rose (“Axl Rose”), Saul Hudson (“Slash”); and Michael “Duff” McKagan, members of this band founded in the 80s.
Through their lawyers, the interpreters of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Paradise City” explain that they learned of the existence of this business in 2019, and that in 2020 they asked the company to stop using their name, without success.
On page 7 of the document, the plaintiffs claim that the nature of the business is “detrimental” to Guns N’ Roses, which does not want to be associated with a “firearms” dealer.
A school shooting in Texas (May), and others that occurred in November at a university and a supermarket in Virginia and at an LGBT club in Colorado, with deadly consequences, have reactivated the debate in the United States on the purchase and carrying of weapons, a right that those who defend it, assure which is protected by an old constitutional norm.
President Joe Biden himself has called for gun control laws stricter.
According to him portal Gun Violence Archive, so far this year there have been 40,781 deaths from firearms in the United States, although more than half of the cases are suicides. Of this total, some 200 deaths corresponded to mass murders.
