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September 29, 2022

Highland Park Mass Shooting Survivors Sue Smith & Wesson
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In Illinois, wounded survivors and the families of three people killed
in a mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park have
filed a lawsuit against gunmaker Smith & Wesson, two gun stores, the man
who's been charged in the shootings and his father. The lawsuit charges
the gunmaker and gun sellers acted with negligence and employed
deceptive practices, arguing that the shooter was the type of young
consumer susceptible to Smith & Wesson's deceptive and unfair marketing
practices, and that the shooting was both "predictable and preventable."


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