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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang

Sandy Hook families reach $73m settlement with gun manufacturer

The Remington name is seen etched on a model 870 shotgun at Duke's Sport Shop in New Castle, Pa.
Sandy Hook families found a way around the legal protection for gunmakers by claiming that Remington’s marketing of firearms contributed to the massacre. Photograph: Keith Srakocic/AP

A gunmaker has been held liable for a mass shooting in the United States for the first time after Remington Arms agreed to pay $73m to the families of five adults and four children killed in the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre.

Twenty students and six adults were killed on 14 December 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, by Adam Lanza, who used a Remington Bushmaster AR-15 rifle to shoot his way into the school after killing his mother at home.

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