Remington settlement Sandy Hook Case

[WillBrink]

Good old Remington... There's literally a federal law to prevent this, CT courts ignored it, and SCOTUS refused to look at it. Results, Remington decided to settlement. This is very bad precedence and makes no sense at all when the kid had no part in the purchase to begin with. This will open the flood gates to more to be sure, and now that they know SCOTUS will ignore states that have decided the federal laws don't apply them:

Sandy Hook families agree to $73M settlement with gun maker

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School have agreed to a $73 million settlement of a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 first graders and six educators in 2012.

Remington, which made the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle used in the massacre, also agreed to allow the families to release numerous documents they obtained during the lawsuit including ones showing how it marketed the weapon, the families said Tuesday.

The families and a survivor of the shooting sued Remington in 2015, saying the company should have never sold such a dangerous weapon to the public. They said their focus was on preventing future mass shootings.

https://apnews.com/article/sandy-hoo...c06275a4df403?

[markm]

I hope these parasites suffer greatly from their ill gotten gains.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

There has to be a legal reason that this went down the way it did. After the Aurora shooting here they went after the ammo or dealers and the families ended up owing the gun guys that they sued. Is the claim that they marketed it as a being used to kill people or something like that- that is the carve out in the protection law that congress passed. Even with out the law, the law of common sense should make this a non-starter. If I were Budweiser or GM, I'd be a little worried. Any car that is marketed based on speed or power and then is involved in a high speed crash that kills, how is that any different- or really less? Fast car and bad beer aren't protected in the constitution....


Isn't Remington bankrupt or under new management? Is that $73M payable over a thousand years?

[Biggy]

Fork and spoon makers better look out, *fat* Roseann O'Donnell and her lawyers are coming for them next.

[TomMcC]

So their legal fees out stripped $73 million? That's a lot of lawyering.

[Business_Casual]

People predicted this when Big Tobacco settled.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

People predicted this when Big Tobacco settled.

That was all about the money. This is about decimating the industry out of existence.

The thing is with open source designs like the AR platform, you could have corporation set up making 100 000 guns and then shut down.

[Leaveammoforme]

So, is Remington going back to the "AR's are not needed" stance that they had before they produced AR's?

Did they ever compensate survivors of the 700 trigger fiasco where their decisions had directly caused the issue?

[Tanner]

I hope these parasites suffer greatly from their ill gotten gains.

$73M will ease a lot of suffering

[WillBrink]

$73M will ease a lot of suffering

You could add zeros that and it would ease my suffering of having my kid killed in school by a POS under those circumstances, where yet again, parenting sucked, adults failed to protect children adequately, and the blame placed on the tool used vs real caused. Your mileage may vary. My BP goes up if I think about Parkland, being the poster child event for all that, and a call for more gun control was all they could come up with.