Suit Against Newtown Shooting Gun Maker to Proceed
Apr 15, 2016, 05:15 PM
A Connecticut judge declined Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the maker of the rifle used by the gunman during the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, allowing the suit to proceed.
The lawsuit, filed by nine families of Sandy Hook victims, contends that the manufacturer sold and marketed the assault-style weapon to untrained civilians and created an "unreasonably high risk" that it could be used in a mass shooting, the New York Times reported.