In Taurus Holdings, Inc. v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co., No. SC04-771, 2005 WL 2296481 ( Fla. Sept. 22, 2005), the Florida Supreme Court ruled that a commercial liability policy's products-completed operations exclusion precluded coverage for lawsuits against a gun manufacturer stemming from gun violence.

 Various municipalities sued gun manufacturers, including Taurus Holdings, for gun violence in their communities resulting from the use of the manufacturers' products.

 The municipalities alleged "that the gun manufacturers failed to make guns safe and prevent foreseeable misuse, and failed to provide appropriate warnings about the dangers of guns; that they designed, manufactured and marketed guns in excess of the demand that might be expected from consumers, thereby guaranteeing that the surplus would enter the illegal firearms market, and that they were aware that the guns they manufactured and sold would fall into the hands of criminals, but they took no action to prevent it; and that they falsely and deceptively claimed through advertising and promotion of their handguns that the ownership and possession of handguns in the home increases one's security."

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