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Originally Posted by Gunmaster45
I think it says on the TEC-9 page how the Columbine Shooting had quite a bit to do with Intratec closing. Maybe I'm wrong.
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The negative publicity certainly would have accelerated its demise, but Intratec had been on the rocks for many years prior to Columbine. A lot of it had to do with lawsuits which were even before Columbine. In 1993, a guy shot up a San Francisco law firm using a pair of TEC-9s, and the victim's families filed a lawsuit that hurt Intratec pretty badly. I believe another was filed around 1997-98. These multiple lawsuits, combined with the fact that Intratec's business was hurt pretty badly by the AWB, led to the company's demise. Columbine was the nail in the coffin.
Also, Intratec had a bad reputation with BATF going back many years.