{"id":64494,"date":"2016-02-23T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64494"},"modified":"2016-02-23T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:04:53","slug":"freedom-group-seeks-dismissal-of-sandy-hook-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64494","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Group seeks dismissal of Sandy Hook lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ex-PH2 sends us a link to the Chicago Tribune<\/a> which reports that Freedom Group, the North Carolina company that makes the Bushmaster scary-looking rifle that the shooter used to kill 20 children and six adults in Connecticut asked a judge to dismiss the lawsuit against their company that the victims’ families filed against them charging the company with the responsibility for those deaths. <\/p>\n

Joshua Koskoff, a lawyer for the victims’ families, said their lawsuit is believed to be the first to be filed under an exception listed in the federal law that allows litigation against companies that know, or should know, that their weapons are likely to be used in a way that risks injury to others. The families are seeking unspecified monetary damages and hope the lawsuit persuades gun companies to not sell AR-15s to the public.<\/p>\n

“This is an instrument of war designed for the battlefield that is marketed and sold to the general public,” said Mark Barden, whose son Daniel was killed in the massacre. “We’re just asking for accountability.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The shooter killed his mother – the person who bought the weapon legally – and stole it from her. So somehow, the manufacturer is responsible for the way the firearm was acquired, too. Maybe they should sue the manufacturer of the firearm that the shooter used to kill his own mother. I’d remind my readers that the gun laws in Connecticut prevented the shooter from buying his own gun legally, so the response of the victims is to write more gun laws that would prevent law abiding citizens from owning guns. And a couple of million dollars in a settlement agreement probably wouldn’t hurt, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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