Wrong. Valor Corpoation was the distributor. Raven Arms was the manufacturer who went out of business (due to a fire) nine years before the shooting.
The gun went from Raven Arms to the distributor, where it was sold (to someone). That person then sold it to Hypoluxo Pawn Shop. The uncle of the shooter, Elmore McCray, purchased the gun from the pawn shop and placed it in an unlocked box in the unlocked drawer of a dresser in his bedroom. I don't know if the gun was stored loaded.
The shooter, 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill, stole the gun from his uncle and shot his teacher, point blank, in the head, killing him instantly and leaving behind a wife and childern.
The wife sued everybody, uncle, pawn shop, distributor, and the school district, and was awarded $24 million. The distributor was deemed 5% liable (ergo, $1.2 million).
Actually, I do not belive the widow sued the uncle or the school. In the previous article posted about this, it said:
Since neither McCray nor the school board were defendants in the civil trial, they did not have to pay damages. Both have previous settlements with Pam Grunow.
The jury came back and said Valor was only 5% responsible and McCray and the school shared the other 95% of the responsibility. Its confusing civil law procedures. You can file suit against one person, but the jury can find someone other than the person named in the suit responsible for the damage. However, if a jury fins such, only a party to the suit must pay(I do not know if the widow could now file suit against McCray and the school. Probabaly not since they settled already.) The widow wasn't going to be getting the other $22.8 million regardless.