When a Connecticut judge last week allowed family members of Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victims to continue their lawsuit against a gun manufacturer, experts saw the decision as a means to put off deciding the legal merits of the case.
Those experts are undoubtedly right, but several of them also believe extending the case opens the door — just a crack — to the possibility that plaintiffs may score a legal victory.
There was reason to think that the lawsuit — brought by several families against Bushmaster Firearms, which manufactured the weapon used in the 2012 massacre — wouldn’t even get off the ground. Read more…
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