“(My husband) Mark and I still have a great life, and we really have to remember that”, Barden said, adding that their two children bring the family an enormous amount of love and strength. This was an ill considered venture to begin with and we’re in a lot of trouble as a nation if the courts manage to bend reality enough to allow them to prevail.
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“[Lanza] chose the AR-15 because he was aware of how many shots it could get out”, said Nicole Hockley, who lost her son Dylan on that fateful morning December 14, 2012. Christopher Renzulli said that his clients lawfully distributed the firearm, following regulations.
“It’s not as though there aren’t moments of hope and beauty in every second of every day, because there are”, he said. They said they feel the companies played a big role in the tragedy. So, Monday, the Freedom Group, a parent company of AR-15 maker Bushmaster Firearms is expected to ask the judge to drop the case. He called the firearm an “instrument of war” developed for the US military.
AR-15 on an American Flag. RTR.
“Each of the kids had three to eight bullets in them”.
Attorney Peter Berry, who is representing Riverview, said his client “was closest to the ground” since it had sold the gun to Nancy Lanza.
The case has the potential to make history if it goes to trial.
The company says they’re shielded by a 2005 federal law, which protects gun makers from lawsuits when their products are used in crimes.
They said they’re suing under an exception to the 2015 law.
Attorney Josh Koskoff argued that the lawsuit should proceed based on a negligent entrustment exception. Gun industry lawyers frequently try to move similar cases to federal courts, which have uniformly refused to permit suits against gun manufacturers for criminal actions of third parties.
After all, the Sandy Hook Advisory Committee Report shows that Lanza had just over nine minutes with no armed resistance. In fact, their attorneys said, that the way that Remington marketed the AR-15 to young, isolated men like Lanza constitutes “negligent entrustment”, or an act of knowingly giving a unsafe weapon to a person who’s likely to use it hazardously.
From San Bernardino, California, to Newtown, Connecticut, the AR-15 is the weapon of choice for mass shootings.
Remington is the parent company of Bushmaster.
“It’s hard to explain when you really don’t know why yourself”, Barden said. People kill people. If you do happen to find a gun killing someone then it was defective to a severe degree and the manufacturer can rightly be held liable for that single instance of damage.
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A judge listened to arguments from the 2014 suit on Monday in Bridgeport.
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“It is unconscionable for plaintiffs to assert that a company who manufactures a legal product would do so with any fore-thought that it was somehow acceptable to commit murder with their products”, Scott Wilson, president of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, told Hartford-area station WFSB-TV.
