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Sandy Hook lawsuit is latest effort to hold gun makers liable for mass shootings

  • Written by Timothy D. Lytton, Distinguished University Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University

Last year families of the Sandy Hook shooting filed a potentially precedent-setting lawsuit. They sued the manufacturer of the AR-15 rifle that Adam Lanza used to gun down 20 schoolchildren and their teachers in a small town in Connecticut in 2012.

On June 20, lawyers for the gun manufacturers tried to dismiss the suit, arguing that federal law...

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