As part of a historic agreement, the families of nine victims of Sandy Hook school massacre to receive 73 settlement millions dollars from the American gunsmith Remington, the manufacturer of AR-15 style semi- used automatic rifle in the mass shooting.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs said the settlement marks the first one time gun the manufacturer was held responsible for a mass shooting in the United States, long traumatized by the massacres on campuses.
Twenty-six children and the teachers were shot dead in 2012 in primary school in Newtown, Connecticut by Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old with known developmental disorders. The killings – the second- deadliest school massacre in we history – amazed Americans, with many thinking they would mark a watershed moment that lead lawmakers to tighten gun control.
A “settlement agreement has been signed between the parties”, an opinion of lawyers for the families said Tuesday.
Calling him move “historic”, said US President Joe Biden begins “the necessary work of holding gun responsible manufacturers.” Manufacturers and dealers must either change their business models or “wear the financial cost of their complicity,” he said. in A declaration.
In his statement Tuesday, Biden called on Congress to repeal the Immunity Act. Meanwhile, he said he would “continue to urge state and local lawmakers, attorneys and survivors of gun violence to continue its efforts to reproduce success of the Sandy Hook families.
AR-15 in foreground over marketing, civil use
by Lanza motherune gun enthusiast, had bought him an AR-15-style Bushmaster XM15-E2S semi-automatic rifle more less than two years before shooting. Lanza murdered son mother before attacking the school, and later committed suicide with a handgun when the police arrived.
Lanza’s serious and deteriorating mental health is a concern with violence and access at son mother’s weapons have revealed themselves recipe for Mass murder”, according to the child of Connecticut advocate.
The lawsuit alleged that Remington and the other two defendants were guilty because they knowingly marketed a military “extremely unsuitable” quality weapon for civil use yet had become the gun more used in mass shootings. An AR-15 was also used to kill 58 people to a mass shooting in Vegas in 2017, and 17 in a school in Park, Florida in 2018.
Remington, the oldest gunsmith in the United States, having since filed for bankruptcy for a second time in 2020, denied the allegations. His assets were then sold off to several companies. The manufacturer was weighed down by lawsuits and restrictions on retail sales following the school shooting.
Four insurers for the now bankrupt company agreed to pay full amount of coverage availabletotaling 73 millions of dollars, the plaintiffs said.
The plaintiffs alleged that the gun has been immorally and unscrupulously marketed and sold on his ability to combat to civilians. Marketing, they charged, popularized the AR-15 in combat and mass shooting type situations through the type of violent video games that Lanza was known for play. They specifically cited Remington’s marketing of high-capacity magazines, which only have combat utility, for use with the gun.
the gun “was used not by a highly trained soldier, but by a deeply troubled child, not on a battlefield abroad but in an elementary school in homeand not to preserve freedom, but to eviscerate them”, Joshua Koskoff, lawyer for the families of Sandy Hook, said Tuesday at a press conference.
Koskoff said the case centered on commercialization of the AR-15 gun, which was originally made for combat and for decades have called for only one small civil market.
After Cerberus private investment company bought Remington in 2007 he launched aggressive campaign that drove sales of AR-15 by product placement in first-person shooter video games and touting the AR-15 as an effective tool killing machine, Koskoff said. Sales increased from 100,000 AR-15s in 2005 at 2 millions in 2012, Koskoff added.
Christopher Boehning, another lawyer for plaintiffs, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the settlement “sends a strong warning signal to others gun manufacturers regarding their role in these unthinkable tragedies.”
Right to life versus right to bear arms
A government-funded research project published in February found this of all the mass shootings that took place between 1966 and 2019, more than half took place since 2000, with 20% of between 2010 and 2019.
Gun control advocates have been emboldened by the Sandy Hook law strategy, including the New Jersey attorney general, who Smith & Wesson marketing survey.
Mexico filed a complaint in the United States last year seeking $10 billion from multiple gunsmiths, accusing them of selling their guns to gangs across the country.
New York last year enacted a law that allows firearms sellers, manufacturers and distributors prosecuted for creating a “public nuisance” which met in danger publicit is safety and health. Arms makers challenged the law in to research.
Gun advocacy groups have also summer using courts and state legislatures to extend gun rights and won victories in the Supreme Court in 2008 and 2010 which established the right of an individual to retain a gun at home for self-defense.
The United States leads the world in mass shootings by civilians, with many schools in progress live shooting exercises as a question of routine.
But the grief and the trauma of Lanza’s rampage was highlighted by youngsters of his victims. He killed 20 six- and seven-year-the old along with six the members of personnel. Nearly four years later, the shooting was still so visceral that it moved then-President Barack Obama to tears during a speech. on gun control.
The hope that the revulsion over the massacre would finally spur Congress to follow through on very popular requests for greater restrictions on the arms, however, fell flat. Instead, the powerful gun lobby dabbed repeatedly out any effort to further amend the country’s famous second amendment to the constitution, which allows for the right to bear arms.
But the settlement agreement between the Sandy Hook and Remington families could help pave the way for any further accountability in such massacres.
The United States Congress has passed a law in 2005 which explicitly immunized gunsmiths when their products were used in crimes. But the Connecticut Supreme Court said Remington could still be sued on on the grounds that its marketing violated unfair Connecticut law trade practice laws. the gun manufacturer appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case.
“The gun manufacturers knew they were advertising a dangerous product and they exploited those dangers,” Matthew Soto, brother of first teacher Vicki Soto, who was among the victims, said Tuesday at the press conference.
Nicole Hockley, the mother of victim Dylan, six said at the press conference that son family had left Britain “because of our conviction in the american dream.”
But that’ turned into an American nightmare where for too the right to bear arms is a higher priority than the right to life. »
Gun advocacy groups have said the settlement will have little effect on gun sales and gun manufacturers, who continue to be free from liability in most cases fall under federal law. But some experts said it could prompt insurers to push gun manufacturers by making certain changes.
“You would expect to see increased pressure from insurance companies for gun manufacturers to avoid genre of That is design marketing choices or practices that have given rise to this litigation,” Timothy D. Lytton, Legal professor at Georgia State University, the Associated Press (AP) told.
The settlement is not the first between the victims and a gun maker. Families of eight victims of the Washington, DC-area snipers won a settlement of 2.5 millions of dollars in 2004, with $550,000 from Bushmaster Firearms Inc. and the rest of the gun dealer. But Lytton said the impact of Sandy Hook settlement could be more grand because he is so higher.
The civil trial in Concentrated Connecticut on how the firearm used by the Newtown shooter was marketed, alleging that it targeted younger people, at-risk males in advertising and product placement in violent video games. In one of Remington commercials are features the rifle against a plain background and the phrase: “Consider your man card reissued.”
In the framework of of the colony, Remington also agreed to allow the families to release numerous documents they obtained during the trial, including those showing how he marketed the gun, the families said. It’s not clear when these documents will be published.
Remington had argued that there was no evidence to establish that son marketing had something to do with shooting. The company also said the trial should were fired because of federal law that grants broad immunity to gun industry.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a society based in Newtown group who represents gunsmiths, the courts have said should would not have allowed the case to proceed and believes that the plaintiffs would have lost at trial. This also says the rules should do not have effect on the protection of Legal trade in Arms Act, the 2005 federal law that shields gun manufacturers from any liability.
“The plaintiffs have never produced any evidence that Bushmaster’s publicity had any impact or influence over by Nancy Lanza decision legally purchase a Bushmaster rifle, nor on the decision of the murderer Adam Lanza to steal this gun, kill his mother in son sleep, and go on at commit the rest of his horrific crimes, group noted in A declaration.
Settlement damages will only be paid to families who signed on the lawsuit, not the families of the other victims. The families have not yet decided what they will do with the money of the colony, said their spokesman, Andrew Friedman.
“Today is about what is right and what is wrong“said Francine Wheeler, whose 6-year-old sonBen, was killed in shooting. “Our legal system gave us some justice today. But… David and I will never have true justice. True justice would be our 15-year- old healthy and upright next at us at present. But Benny will never be 15. He will be 6 years old forever because he is gone forever.
As part of a historic agreement, the families of nine victims of Sandy Hook school massacre to receive 73 settlement millions dollars from the American gunsmith Remington, the manufacturer of AR-15 style semi- used automatic rifle in the mass shooting.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs said the settlement marks the first one time gun the manufacturer was held responsible for a mass shooting in the United States, long traumatized by the massacres on campuses.
Twenty-six children and the teachers were shot dead in 2012 in primary school in Newtown, Connecticut by Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old with known developmental disorders. The killings – the second- deadliest school massacre in we history – amazed Americans, with many thinking they would mark a watershed moment that lead lawmakers to tighten gun control.
A “settlement agreement has been signed between the parties”, an opinion of lawyers for the families said Tuesday.
Calling him move “historic”, said US President Joe Biden begins “the necessary work of holding gun responsible manufacturers.” Manufacturers and dealers must either change their business models or “wear the financial cost of their complicity,” he said. in A declaration.
In his statement Tuesday, Biden called on Congress to repeal the Immunity Act. Meanwhile, he said he would “continue to urge state and local lawmakers, attorneys and survivors of gun violence to continue its efforts to reproduce success of the Sandy Hook families.
AR-15 in foreground over marketing, civil use
by Lanza motherune gun enthusiast, had bought him an AR-15-style Bushmaster XM15-E2S semi-automatic rifle more less than two years before shooting. Lanza murdered son mother before attacking the school, and later committed suicide with a handgun when the police arrived.
Lanza’s serious and deteriorating mental health is a concern with violence and access at son mother’s weapons have revealed themselves recipe for Mass murder”, according to the child of Connecticut advocate.
The lawsuit alleged that Remington and the other two defendants were guilty because they knowingly marketed a military “extremely unsuitable” quality weapon for civil use yet had become the gun more used in mass shootings. An AR-15 was also used to kill 58 people to a mass shooting in Vegas in 2017, and 17 in a school in Park, Florida in 2018.
Remington, the oldest gunsmith in the United States, having since filed for bankruptcy for a second time in 2020, denied the allegations. His assets were then sold off to several companies. The manufacturer was weighed down by lawsuits and restrictions on retail sales following the school shooting.
Four insurers for the now bankrupt company agreed to pay full amount of coverage availabletotaling 73 millions of dollars, the plaintiffs said.
The plaintiffs alleged that the gun has been immorally and unscrupulously marketed and sold on his ability to combat to civilians. Marketing, they charged, popularized the AR-15 in combat and mass shooting type situations through the type of violent video games that Lanza was known for play. They specifically cited Remington’s marketing of high-capacity magazines, which only have combat utility, for use with the gun.
the gun “was used not by a highly trained soldier, but by a deeply troubled child, not on a battlefield abroad but in an elementary school in homeand not to preserve freedom, but to eviscerate them”, Joshua Koskoff, lawyer for the families of Sandy Hook, said Tuesday at a press conference.
Koskoff said the case centered on commercialization of the AR-15 gun, which was originally made for combat and for decades have called for only one small civil market.
After Cerberus private investment company bought Remington in 2007 he launched aggressive campaign that drove sales of AR-15 by product placement in first-person shooter video games and touting the AR-15 as an effective tool killing machine, Koskoff said. Sales increased from 100,000 AR-15s in 2005 at 2 millions in 2012, Koskoff added.
Christopher Boehning, another lawyer for plaintiffs, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the settlement “sends a strong warning signal to others gun manufacturers regarding their role in these unthinkable tragedies.”
Right to life versus right to bear arms
A government-funded research project published in February found this of all the mass shootings that took place between 1966 and 2019, more than half took place since 2000, with 20% of between 2010 and 2019.
Gun control advocates have been emboldened by the Sandy Hook law strategy, including the New Jersey attorney general, who Smith & Wesson marketing survey.
Mexico filed a complaint in the United States last year seeking $10 billion from multiple gunsmiths, accusing them of selling their guns to gangs across the country.
New York last year enacted a law that allows firearms sellers, manufacturers and distributors prosecuted for creating a “public nuisance” which met in danger publicit is safety and health. Arms makers challenged the law in to research.
Gun advocacy groups have also summer using courts and state legislatures to extend gun rights and won victories in the Supreme Court in 2008 and 2010 which established the right of an individual to retain a gun at home for self-defense.
The United States leads the world in mass shootings by civilians, with many schools in progress live shooting exercises as a question of routine.
But the grief and the trauma of Lanza’s rampage was highlighted by youngsters of his victims. He killed 20 six- and seven-year-the old along with six the members of personnel. Nearly four years later, the shooting was still so visceral that it moved then-President Barack Obama to tears during a speech. on gun control.
The hope that the revulsion over the massacre would finally spur Congress to follow through on very popular requests for greater restrictions on the arms, however, fell flat. Instead, the powerful gun lobby dabbed repeatedly out any effort to further amend the country’s famous second amendment to the constitution, which allows for the right to bear arms.
But the settlement agreement between the Sandy Hook and Remington families could help pave the way for any further accountability in such massacres.
The United States Congress has passed a law in 2005 which explicitly immunized gunsmiths when their products were used in crimes. But the Connecticut Supreme Court said Remington could still be sued on on the grounds that its marketing violated unfair Connecticut law trade practice laws. the gun manufacturer appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case.
“The gun manufacturers knew they were advertising a dangerous product and they exploited those dangers,” Matthew Soto, brother of first teacher Vicki Soto, who was among the victims, said Tuesday at the press conference.
Nicole Hockley, the mother of victim Dylan, six said at the press conference that son family had left Britain “because of our conviction in the american dream.”
But that’ turned into an American nightmare where for too the right to bear arms is a higher priority than the right to life. »
Gun advocacy groups have said the settlement will have little effect on gun sales and gun manufacturers, who continue to be free from liability in most cases fall under federal law. But some experts said it could prompt insurers to push gun manufacturers by making certain changes.
“You would expect to see increased pressure from insurance companies for gun manufacturers to avoid genre of That is design marketing choices or practices that have given rise to this litigation,” Timothy D. Lytton, Legal professor at Georgia State University, the Associated Press (AP) told.
The settlement is not the first between the victims and a gun maker. Families of eight victims of the Washington, DC-area snipers won a settlement of 2.5 millions of dollars in 2004, with $550,000 from Bushmaster Firearms Inc. and the rest of the gun dealer. But Lytton said the impact of Sandy Hook settlement could be more grand because he is so higher.
The civil trial in Concentrated Connecticut on how the firearm used by the Newtown shooter was marketed, alleging that it targeted younger people, at-risk males in advertising and product placement in violent video games. In one of Remington commercials are features the rifle against a plain background and the phrase: “Consider your man card reissued.”
In the framework of of the colony, Remington also agreed to allow the families to release numerous documents they obtained during the trial, including those showing how he marketed the gun, the families said. It’s not clear when these documents will be published.
Remington had argued that there was no evidence to establish that son marketing had something to do with shooting. The company also said the trial should were fired because of federal law that grants broad immunity to gun industry.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a society based in Newtown group who represents gunsmiths, the courts have said should would not have allowed the case to proceed and believes that the plaintiffs would have lost at trial. This also says the rules should do not have effect on the protection of Legal trade in Arms Act, the 2005 federal law that shields gun manufacturers from any liability.
“The plaintiffs have never produced any evidence that Bushmaster’s publicity had any impact or influence over by Nancy Lanza decision legally purchase a Bushmaster rifle, nor on the decision of the murderer Adam Lanza to steal this gun, kill his mother in son sleep, and go on at commit the rest of his horrific crimes, group noted in A declaration.
Settlement damages will only be paid to families who signed on the lawsuit, not the families of the other victims. The families have not yet decided what they will do with the money of the colony, said their spokesman, Andrew Friedman.
“Today is about what is right and what is wrong“said Francine Wheeler, whose 6-year-old sonBen, was killed in shooting. “Our legal system gave us some justice today. But… David and I will never have true justice. True justice would be our 15-year- old healthy and upright next at us at present. But Benny will never be 15. He will be 6 years old forever because he is gone forever.