A lawsuit against an industry viewed by many as protected from liability over gun violence used a novel legal strategy, and accomplished the unthinkable: the largest payout ever by a gun company to victims of a mass shooting.
Why? Why are we here, if not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook has gone through, what Uvalde is going through? … I am here on this floor to beg – to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues: Find a path forward here.","The policies the Democrats are proposing, they wouldn't have stopped this crime or any others. They're not focused on stopping crimes. Their solution is to try to take away your firearms.
What the Wheelers, and eight other Sandy Hook families, did at first seemed impossible. They sued the gunmaker, Remington Arms, and in FebruaryEarlier this month, the family of Andre Mackneil, who wasOne of their lawyer's first calls was to Josh Koskoff, who represented the Sandy Hook families."If there was such a thing as less than zero, I would say that," he replied."Nothing about guns, nothing about gun law.
passed in 2005. Known as PLCAA , it's a way to protect gun companies from liability for shootings."It basically eliminates the common law rights that people would otherwise have to bring a lawsuit against automobile industry or a tobacco industry or a pharmaceutical industry," Koskoff said.But the law contains a few exceptions, including one that allowed Koskoff to go after how the gun was marketed.
The Sandy Hook shooter was a frequent player of the video game"Call of Duty." Koskoff had played the game with his own son, and saw something familiar in a crime scene photograph: two 30-round magazines duct-taped together. From"Call of Duty," Koskoff knew what its purpose was:"When you were playing the game, it allowed for almost zero downtime to quote/unquote 'change mags.'""You could kill 60 people with this instead of 30, with almost no lag.
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