Posted on 04/14/2016 12:27:49 PM PDT by jazusamo
A lawsuit can go forward against the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, a judge ruled Thursday.
Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis said that a 2005 federal law protecting gun-makers from lawsuits does not prevent lawyers for the victims' families from arguing that the semi-automatic rifle is a military weapon and should not have been sold to civilians.
Lanza, 20, killed 20 first-grade students and six educators on Dec. 14, 2012 with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle that his mother had bought legally. Lanza killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their Newtown home with a different gun before going to the school a few miles away, and then killed himself as police arrived.
The families of nine children and adults killed at the Newtown school and a teacher who survived the attack are suing Remington Arms, the parent company of Bushmaster Firearms, which made the weapon used in the school shooting.
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Semi auto rifles are not military weapons.
Full auto/selectable full auto rifles are.
Strict semi autos are not. Not in what we call todays modern army.
Last time I looked there were only 2 types of GUNS, Automatic and Semi-Automatic. Am I missing something??
False premise right there. Any lawyer worth his license should destroy this case.
The AR-15 is a black, scary looking rifle to the clueless liberal.
if the documents on this whole mess are sealed does any one know Exactly what type firearm Lanza was holding
This will be appealed and thrown out because it violates the law that protects gun manufacturers from lawsuits brought to hold them responsible for the illegal use of their firearms.
Well, to a liberal, the 3rd kind is the scary looking semi-auto, you know, the dangerous type.
bet if you put a “rainbow” on it they’d be ok with it. /sarc
Yep, this lawsuit being allowed to go ahead will cost much money to be spent and plaintiff’s will not collect a dime.
Bump!
What law says a civilian can’t have a “military” rifle. There are hoops to jump through to own a full auto, short barrel rifle but there is no law I know of against owning the exact same rifle used by the army.
idiot judge
even without the Constitution, his order is ridiculous on its face
Just another judge legislating.
So by this logic the victims of 9/11 can sue Boeing since their aircraft were used to kill people.
It’s black, made by a company with a name that’s probably offensive to someone and it has a really evil sounding model number.
Only hope is Trump and start a trend to remove communists judges from the bench. Withhold funds until these rats fold.
That depends on what the meaning of the word is, is.
I consider Automatic as requiring No Further Human Input
Semi Automatic requires further Human Input.
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