Families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting have reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with US gunmaker Remington, in a landmark deal for a country traumatised by campus massacres:
Loved ones visit a memorial for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school a day after the shooting.Families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting have reached a $73-million settlement with United States gunmaker Remington, in a landmark deal for a country traumatised by campus massacres.
A "settlement agreement has been executed between the parties," a notice from lawyers for the families said Tuesday.His mother, a gun enthusiast, had bought him an AR-15-style Bushmaster XM15-E2S semi-automatic rifle more than two years before the shooting.
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 to play. Christopher Boehning, another lawyer for the plaintiffs, told AFP the settlement "sends a strong warning signal to other gun manufacturers regarding their role in these unthinkable tragedies."The United States leads the world in mass shootings by civilians, with many schools undergoing live shooter drills as a matter of routine.
Instead, the powerful gun lobby has repeatedly stamped out any efforts to further change the famed Second Amendment to the country's constitution, which allows for the right to bear arms. But the Connecticut Supreme Court said that Remington could still be sued on the grounds that its marketing violated Connecticut's unfair trade practice laws."The gun manufacturers knew that they were advertising a dangerous product and they exploited these dangers," Matthew Soto, brother of first-grade teacher Vicki Soto, who was among the victims, said at Tuesday's press conference.
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