Experts Admissible In Dispute Over Flagging Straw Purchasers Of Firearms

( October 3, 2025, 1:00 PM EDT) -- MINNEAPOLIS — Experts retained by Minnesota and a retail chain of stores can testify in a case accusing the company of selling firearms to individuals it knew or should have known were straw purchasers, a Minnesota federal judge said, finding that the two experts meet admissibility standards set under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc....