For the first time, an armorer has settled a civil lawsuit brought by survivors of a gun attack, with Remington agreeing to a settlement with the survivors of victims from the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre, ABC News reports.
Adam Lanza, 20 years old at the time, used an unmodified Bushmaster XM15-E2S semiautomatic rifle to kill twenty students aged seven or eight and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Lanza committed suicide before being captured.
The lawsuit alleges that the massacre would not have been so deadly had Lanza not had the Remington rifle, which is the manufacturer’s version of an AR-15 assault rifle, and that Remington was negligent in marketing a military-grade rifle to civilians.
The settlement was made without specifying a dollar amount released, but given that Remington declared bankruptcy in 2020, the cash output may be negligible.