Many news outlets are pointing out that the CT State Supreme Court has now allowed Gun Manufacturers to be sued for any killed by their weapons, but is that the true story?
The case is no longer focused specifically on the incident itself, as there is a federal law, passed by the NRA, that does not allow for the lawsuit of gun manufacturers in a shooting event, even one as massively damaging as the Sandy Hook Shooting [1].
What the law does allow, however, is the right for the parents to sue based on the companies advertizing methods.
In the lawsuit, the families seized upon the marketing for the AR-15-style Bushmaster used in the 2012 attack, which invoked the violence of combat and used slogans like “Consider your man card reissued.”
Lawyers for the families argued that those messages reflected a deliberate effort to appeal to troubled young men like Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who charged into the elementary school and killed 26 people, including 20 first graders, in a spray of gunfire. The attack traumatized the nation and made Newtown, Conn., the small town where it happened, a rallying point in the broader debate over gun violence.
In the 4-3 ruling, the justices agreed with a lower court judge’s decision to dismiss most of the claims raised by the families, but also found that the sweeping federal protections did not prevent the families from bringing a lawsuit based on wrongful marketing claims [2].
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Source 2: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/nyregion/sandy-hook-supreme-court.html
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