The AR-15 is a close relative of the Colt company's M16 automatic rifle used by the U.S. "What kind of society allows manhood to be defined in this way?" Wheeler asked. And he recalled one of Remington's ads for a gun that carried the tagline, "Consider your man card reissued." Wheeler told NPR earlier this year that to him, the lawsuit is about responsibility. One of the plaintiffs in the case is David Wheeler, whose 6-year-old son, Ben, was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting.
Supreme Court has declined to take up Remington's appeal, the case will return to a lower court in Connecticut. That decision reversed a Connecticut superior court's ruling that would have ended the case. In March, the Connecticut Supreme Court breathed new life into the families' lawsuit when it ruled they can sue Remington for marketing a military-style weapon to civilians. The 2005 federal law that shields gun companies from liability has several exceptions - including one allowing lawsuits against a gun-maker or seller that knowingly violates state or federal laws governing how a product is sold or marketed. While the suit initially centered on a claim of negligent entrustment - or providing a gun to someone who plans to commit a crime with it - the case now hinges on how Remington marketed the gun. The closely watched lawsuit has survived many legal twists and turns, moving from state to federal court and back, and repeatedly escaping bids by Remington and gun owners' groups to quash it. They accuse Remington of violating Connecticut's unfair trade practices law when it "knowingly marketed and promoted the Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle for use in assaults against human beings." The families first filed their lawsuit in December 2014, saying the Bushmaster rifle never should have been sold to the public because it is a military-style weapon. National Lawsuit By Sandy Hook Victims Against Gun Manufacturer Allowed To Move Forward 14, 2012, to kill 20 first-graders and six adults at the elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Remington manufactured the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle that Adam Lanza used on Dec.
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gun laws - namely, how to interpret the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which grants broad immunity to gun-makers and dealers from prosecution over crimes committed with their products. In recent court filings, Remington says the case "presents a nationally important question" about U.S. Remington had appealed to the highest federal court after the Connecticut Supreme Court allowed the Sandy Hook lawsuit to proceed in March. The justices did not include any comment about the case, Remington Arms Co. The court opted not to hear the gun-maker's appeal, in a decision that was announced Tuesday morning. The families say Remington should be held liable, as the maker and promoter of the AR-15-style rifle used in the 2012 killings. The Supreme Court has denied Remington Arms Co.'s bid to block a lawsuit filed by families of victims of the Sandy Hook school massacre. The gun-maker Remington is being sued by the families of the victims. Mattson holds a Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle, the same type of gun used in the Sandy Hook shooting, during a 2013 hearing in Hartford, Conn. Connecticut State Police Detective Barbara J.