Sandy Hook Parents, Remington agree to $73 million settlement

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Actually, this thread is in the wrong forum – the issue has nothing to do with the Second Amendment; the issue doesn’t concern the regulation of firearms or the courts determining the constitutionality of firearm regulatory measures.

The issue is about leftists wanting to use frivolous lawsuits to violate the Second Amendment.

What the thread is about is the usual lies and demagoguery from the right – the lie that civil suits will be used to manifest a de facto ‘ban’ of assault weapons.

While the left will not succeed in doing this, it is no lie that the left is trying to do it.

Remington settled because it realized it engaged in reckless, irresponsible advertising – Remington has only itself to blame.

Remington did no such thing. Neither did they settle. Their insurance companies settled.

No one is going to ‘ban’ guns, no one is going to ‘confiscate’ guns – those are ridiculous lies propagated by the right.
And no one is going to use civil suits against gun makers to ‘ban’ AR 15s – that’s another ridiculous rightwing lie.

While it is true that no one is going to do it, it is also true that the left is trying to do it.

That their attempts will fail does not mean they are not trying.

 

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i didn't realize it was settled outa court - BECAUSE it was gonna go to trial. oh well ... remington pussied out, cause they were gonna get slammed even harder.
it matters not - cause remington lost.
lost bigley & the precedent has been set.

Remington didn't pay anything and no precedent was set.

Newsom said Friday he’s confident the U.S. Supreme Court, which has repeatedly declined to strike down SB 8, could not overturn AB 1594, because “it is quite literally modeled after the law they just upheld in Texas.”

Misplaced confidence. Watch the Supreme Court strike it down.

that precedent was set using a court ruling & is now applied to a completely different subject. so are you saying that since the remington 'settlement' was outa court, the framework cannot be used in another case that involves the manufacturing & marketing of other firearms?

The grounds for the Remington lawsuit were pretty narrow. And lawsuits that fit in those narrow grounds are frivolous and easily defended against. It isn't likely that future defendants will be dumb enough to settle.

 

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Still trying to figure out why Remington settled this.

They didn't. Their insurers did.

Their insurers were pretty dumb to have done so, but you know what they say about a fool and his money.