Sandy Hook families secure settlement
with gunmaker Remington over 2012 school shooting
Washington Times,
by
Alex Swoyer
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
2/15/2022 12:17:31 PM
The families of nine victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting secured a $73 million settlement Tuesday against Remington Arms, the gun manufacturer that marketed the rifle used in the deadly rampage. The families’ attorneys hailed the move as a victory that allows others to sue gunmakers in the aftermath of mass shootings. During the roughly five-year court battle, the families alleged that Remington marketed its AR-15 as a “combat weapon” to young men prone to violence. They accused the company of unfair trade practice for its advertisements under Connecticut law in their wrongful death lawsuit.(Snip)The gun company had argued that their marketing had nothing
Reply 1 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/15/2022 12:28:24 PM (No. 1072691)
Sounds like Remington shot itself in the foot.
It wasnt the gun that killed those people. It was the perp, and they should have stuck to it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Mofongo 2/15/2022 12:30:10 PM (No. 1072693)
The gun worked as advertised. I do not get this judgment. Why wasn’t it appealed? Why isn’t Remington being sued for defrauding it’s shareholders?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mofongo 2/15/2022 12:40:45 PM (No. 1072708)
Apologies for the necessary second. Lest you consider me insensitive, I live near Sandy Hook and know the family of one of the victims. It was a devastating event, but the gun was not at fault. As far as we know, it did not malfunction. The shooter certainly did, and so did the school, for being a “gun-free zone” without any security. There is plenty of blame to go around, but not for Remington.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 2/15/2022 12:47:57 PM (No. 1072717)
What an abomination.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 2/15/2022 12:49:29 PM (No. 1072719)
The gun was NOT defective. Remington did NOTHING wrong. This is a stupid, short sighted choice by Remington, and the courts are corrupted.
Let's hope that this is overturned on appeal. There is a federal law that prevents this sort of lawsuit. How is this even legal to bring this suit?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 2/15/2022 12:56:53 PM (No. 1072733)
It will be reversed upon appeal. If this is allowed, how do knifemakers/carmakers/jet aircraft builders/virtually any kind of machinery continue to opeerate without a lawsuit upon their heads?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 2/15/2022 12:59:22 PM (No. 1072737)
Emotional blackmail = real money
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 2/15/2022 1:06:47 PM (No. 1072746)
Remington went bankrupt. The company was purchased by the Roundhill Group LLC. Roundhill owes the firearms industry an appeal of this dangerous decision.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/15/2022 1:08:59 PM (No. 1072750)
This is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS! The Board of Directors of that once great company should immediately FIRE its legal counsel and its CEO. At least they are moving to LaGrange, Georgia to stiff New York on taxes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BarryNo 2/15/2022 1:09:21 PM (No. 1072752)
Actually, as I recall, the gun DID malfuntion at Sandyhook, which is why more didnt die and the perp abandoned it to sneak out with the evacuating students.
However the fault is the perp's.
Guns are tools. Tools can be misused, or as in the case of a gun-free zone unavailable for their proper function: protection of the innocents...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
SALady 2/15/2022 1:12:24 PM (No. 1072756)
Remington blew it!!! They settled. There is no "appeal" in a settlement. Appeals are for when you lose a court case. They didn't lose anything except for their common sense.
They paid to try to make this "go away". Only it won't "go away". They opened the doors, and now they are going to be sued every time one of their guns is used for anything illegal. If you give the gun-grabbing nutcases an inch, they won't stop until we are all disarmed sheeple of the government!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ribicon 2/15/2022 1:39:36 PM (No. 1072771)
The same logic could be applied to cases of rape; manufacturers of perfume advertised as making women irresistibly sexy or colognes that make men feel extra manly would thus bear proximate liability. Potato chips so delicious that you can't stop at just one are responsible for obesity. The list is endless.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Aud 2/15/2022 2:10:44 PM (No. 1072807)
Sarah Palin should go this route!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
CactusStar 2/15/2022 2:14:39 PM (No. 1072813)
Never buy another Remington product. They settled because they concluded it was cheaper to settle than appeal. Drive them out of business.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/15/2022 2:33:49 PM (No. 1072831)
Dodge/Chrysler cringes, calls their Lawyers because....
most driveby shootings, mass looting's and fatal car wrecks of late all seem to have Chrysler Vehicles involved. While the Dodge 300s are common, most higher profile, "dead Children" cases involve Challengers and Chargers, the High Powered, "Professional Race car" styled models....knowingly marketed&sold to civilians and amateur drivers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/15/2022 2:35:03 PM (No. 1072832)
Remington paid the Dane-geld. Now they’ll never get rid of the Dane.
(It’s Kipling. Look it up.)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/15/2022 2:36:27 PM (No. 1072833)
They had to limit their losses and settle out of court. We all know it was a bunch of beess. How about we sue silverware manufacturers for making people fat while we are at it?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 2/15/2022 2:38:18 PM (No. 1072834)
Remington settled because it's cheaper to pay now than fight it out in court ( for years )....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rokkitt 2/15/2022 2:44:06 PM (No. 1072839)
Remington is bankrupt. They settled with the insurance companies. A big difference.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/15/2022 3:03:53 PM (No. 1072849)
Remington is looking to commit corporate suicide as who with a brain would buy a firearm from them now, knowing that if something unfortunate happens in the future, that Remington could well abandon you as a person “prone to violence” to get out from under. Common sense will tell you that there are many millions of law abiding legal firearms owners in the USA with only a fraction of a percent of legal firearms owners legitimately being people who are prone to violence.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
red1066 2/15/2022 3:32:25 PM (No. 1072869)
Simply a grab for money. The gunmaker had absolutely nothing to do with this incident.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Son of Grady 2/15/2022 3:43:29 PM (No. 1072875)
Why didn't all victims families pursue the lawsuit.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
earlybird 2/15/2022 4:02:28 PM (No. 1072894)
This is ridiculous. His mother legally purchased guns, taught him to use them. Remington should not have been liable. What #1 said.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/15/2022 5:01:49 PM (No. 1072932)
If this were the fault of Remington, then the gun itself should have been arrested, indicted, tried, found guilty, sentenced and imprisoned.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 2/16/2022 6:08:14 AM (No. 1073300)
Idiots.
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