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In reply to the discussion: Sandy Hook Parents Sue Bushmaster: You Sold ‘Weapon of Choice’ for Mass Murderers [View all]benEzra
(12,148 posts)44. Because the law firm doesn't seem to understand civilian firearms or the PLCAA?
Or perhaps they have swallowed the falsehood that an AR-15 is a "weapon of war", rather than a non-automatic civilian .22 centerfire that 40+ companies make that has been the top selling sporting rifle in the United States for many years.
At some point, someone is going to stand up in court and point out that 75% of firearms on the U.S. civilian market work *exactly* like the AR-15, that .223 Remington is the least powerful of all common centerfire rifle calibers, and that rifles are the least misused of all firearms (all rifles combined account for only 2.5% of U.S. murders, per the FBI).
I believe the full text of the filing can be found here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/250171118/Sandy-Hook-Complaint
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Sandy Hook Parents Sue Bushmaster: You Sold ‘Weapon of Choice’ for Mass Murderers [View all]
kpete
Dec 2014
OP
I predict this effort will fail and the families left more disappointed than before.
NYC_SKP
Dec 2014
#3
The law changed 4 months later to ban sales of that rifle in the state of Conn.
NutmegYankee
Dec 2014
#63
good thing the cheap gun /w the 1.50 a shot high profit-rounds jammed or he would have murdered more
Sunlei
Dec 2014
#11
Alcohol kills 4300 children annually. That's 4 and a half Sandy Hooks a week and that doesn't
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2014
#29
1. The state never passed a law allowing the sale. That which is not forbidden is permitted.
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2014
#30
Win or lose the case, this will certainly keep the national conversation going
LanternWaste
Dec 2014
#28
No doubt, the NRA and the firearm industries are adept at re-branding conversations
LanternWaste
Dec 2014
#36
Why would attorneys take a case that has no legal merit and they know will lose?
helpmetohelpyou
Dec 2014
#38
Because the law firm doesn't seem to understand civilian firearms or the PLCAA?
benEzra
Dec 2014
#44
Thanks! Was very busy with life for a while, but things have settled down. (n/t)
benEzra
Dec 2014
#80
The only standing they'd have is if the gun killed through failure to work as designed
jmowreader
Dec 2014
#40