Sandy Hook victims’ families get access to gun manufacturer marketing records

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Sandy Hook victims’ families get access to gun manufacturer marketing records

Connecticut judge ruled on Thursday after family members questioned
whether the gun companies’ aggressively macho advertising of rifles
was irresponsible

Lois Beckett
Thursday 5 May 2016 22.51 BST

The family members of Sandy Hook shooting victims will get to see the internal records of how gun companies market military-style rifles, a Connecticut judge ruled on Thursday.

It is the latest in a string of victories for the Sandy Hook families in their longshot lawsuit against the manufacturer, distributor and dealer of the rifle used in the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

The Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle used to kill 20 first-graders and six educators was a legal weapon, and it was sold legally to Nancy Lanza, who was also killed by the shooter, her son Adam Lanza.

In the wake of the shooting, some family members of victims questioned whether the gun companies’ aggressively macho advertising of military-style rifles was irresponsible, and whether gun companies were intentionally targeting their product to troubled, violent young men like Lanza.

Thursday’s ruling will give the families and their lawyers a chance to request internal documents and interviews with company officials to answer the question – even if their lawsuit arguing that gun companies were negligent to sell military-style weapons to civilians is ultimately unsuccessful.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/05/sandy-hook-victims-families-gun-manufacturer-records

[Press Virginia]

1. Gun was stolen and they're looking at marketing memos

that makes sense

[gejohnston]

2. their theory is pretty flimsy

In the wake of the shooting, some family members of victims questioned whether the gun companies’ aggressively macho advertising of military-style rifles was irresponsible,

I have a problem with this. I bet they are the same "being male is bad, so lets fill boys full of drugs in grade school"

and whether gun companies were intentionally targeting their product to troubled, violent young men like Lanza.

Why would they? Since Lanza used a weapon of opportunity, there is no evidence Lanza saw any ads or been exposed to much of the outside world. You know what this reminds of?
http://art-bin.com/art/awertham.html
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-switchblade-knives-illegal-is-some-US-states

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3. asdf

[DonP]

5. Obviously you borrowed that from someone

[jmg257]

4. 2 years of discovery, a 4/2018 trial. Because

“the families would like to show that the gun companies knew about the dangers of their product and yet continued to market them”.
to see if "companies were negligent to sell military-style weapons to civilians" Legally.

I wonder how much this is gonna cost...some one.

[virginia mountainman]

7. They refuse to learn..

So they will end up paying...

The family of 24-year-old Jessica Ghawi, a victim in the 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, is faced with more than $200,000 in legal costs after a federal judge ordered them to pay attorney’s fees for four ammunition dealers the family attempted to sue.
“They have taken our daughter, and now they want to take our worldly goods,” Lonnie Phillips told MSNBC’s Tamron Hall in a televised interview earlier this week. “I think that’s a little much.”

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/national-international/Family-to-Pay-Price-for-Trying-to-Sue-Ammo-Dealers-320224111.html

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6. asdf

[beevul]

8. Everyone on both sides knows what this is.

[virginia mountainman]

9. Yep, and one that..

..racks up attorney fees...