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Re: Las Vegas: Mass shooting in Mandalay Bay
Bit of a bump…
Gun firm Remington pays Sandy Hook school shooting families $73m
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/3...5c8b17891a3062
Quote:
The families of five children and four adults, some of those killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, have reached a $73 million settlement with Remington, the bankrupt gun manufacturer that made the assault rifle used. It is the first time a gunmaker has been held responsible in a mass shooting.
Yesterday’s announcement by lawyers for the families came after a seven-year legal battle with Remington Arms, maker of the Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle used to kill 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut. The attack by Adam Lanza, 20, who killed himself as police arrived, was the deadliest primary school shooting in US history. The children he killed were six and seven years old.
The families of nine of the victims filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Remington and its insurers in 2014, alleging that the gunmaker should be held partially responsible for the shooting because its marketing strategy extolled the Bushmaster’s image as a combat weapon.
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Things may change now - gun companies may lose money now they may forced to control who they sell their guns to, and will be under pressure from their insurers.
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