It also said the settlement should have no effect on the The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, the 2005 federal law that shielded gun makers from liability. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a Newtown-based group that represents gunmakers, said courts should not have allowed the case to proceed and it believes the plaintiffs would have lost at trial. Messages seeking comment were left for Remington and its lawyers Tuesday. Lanza’s severe and deteriorating mental health problems, his preoccupation with violence and access to his mother’s weapons “proved a recipe for mass murder,” according to Connecticut’s child advocate. He then used a handgun to kill himself as police arrived. 14, 2012, after having killed his mother at their Newtown home. The manufacturer was weighed down by lawsuits and retail sales restrictions following the school shooting.Īdam Lanza, the 20-year-old gunman in the Sandy Hook shooting, used the rifle made by Remington and legally owned by his mother to kill the children and educators on Dec.

Remington, one of the nation’s oldest gun makers founded in 1816, filed for bankruptcy for a second time in 2020 and its assets were later sold off to several companies. Meanwhile, he said he would “continue to urge state and local lawmakers, lawyers, and survivors of gun violence to pursue efforts to replicate the success of the Sandy Hook families.” In his statement Tuesday, Biden called on Congress to repeal the immunity law. Supreme Court has not yet weighed in on the exception to the 2005 immunity law used by the Sandy Hook families, Lytton said. Whether similar lawsuits can proceed against gun makers remains unsettled because the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Remington could be sued under state law over how it marketed the rifle, under an exception to the federal law. The company also had said the lawsuit should have been dismissed because of the federal law that gives broad immunity to the gun industry.

Remington had argued there was no evidence to establish that its marketing had anything to do with the shooting.

It’s not clear when those documents will be released. In one of Remington’s ads, it features the rifle against a plain backdrop and the phrase: “Consider Your Man Card Reissued.”Īs part of the settlement, Remington also agreed to allow the families to release numerous documents they obtained during the lawsuit including ones showing how it marketed the weapon, the families said. The civil court case in Connecticut focused on how the firearm used by the Newtown shooter - a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle - was marketed, alleging it targeted younger, at-risk males in advertising and product placement in violent video games.

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