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Maker of Gun Used in Sandy Hook Massacre Asks Supreme Court to Block Lawsuit

Reuters

   The maker of the assault-style rifle used in the 2012 mass shooting at
   a Newtown, Connecticut, school asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday
   to overturn a court ruling that allowed families of the victims to sue
   the company over its marketing practices.

   Gun maker Remington Outdoor Co made its plea to the nation's top court
   after the Connecticut Supreme Court in March reinstated a wrongful
   death lawsuit against the gun maker by the families of nine people
   slain and one survivor of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

   The families argued that the Remington AR-15 Bushmaster rifle that a
   20-year-old gunman used to kill 20 children aged 6 and 7 and six adult
   staffers was a weapon of war that was wrongly marketed to civilians for
   use in combat-style missions.

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