An update on SawStop and keeping us all nice and safe

Remember when that guy sued Ryobi and won $1.5 million? Well, our friends at the Consumer Product Safety Commission are once again trying to keep us all safe from our tablesaws.
I like the first line of the article: "As pressure to address table-saw injuries builds..." Pressure? By whom? Ah, I see...Stephen Gass, the inventor of SawStop. Follow the money trail on this one.
As an aside, I kinda think hammers should be padded. Ive smashed my thumb a number of times. And think of the children we might protect.
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CPSC wants to stop daily table saw amputations

As pressure to address debilitating table-saw injuries builds, the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission says she will call in the power-tool industry and the safety standards group to find out why more hasnt been done to address the problem. Read the complete article...