Definitely; happens all the time. The most common reasons are that the product was dangerously faulty; marketed for uses it was not intended for; causing harm, or for fraudulent sales practices for profit. This suit would fall under #2 . Remington marketed this product as a tactical weapon meant for killing a lot of people in a short period of time. When someone took them up on that product concept, it resulted in the deaths and injury of dozens of kids.
It’s up to a jury whether the plaintiffs can prove their case, but there is certainly merit to the suit. It’s definitely not just grieving parents “trying to do something.”
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To get such a gun here for sports you have to(simplified)
Be member if a registered club for at least a year and do training in a regular basis with a gaun you get borrowed at a registered range. You lroove this by mai taining a 'traini g book that gets stamped and signed (can’t just shoot in the woods)
Afterwards your club and the nationaly registered assosiation it belongs to, have to support your need for an own gun (this has to match the disciplines you have been training, no large caliber rifle for a. 22 pistol shooter)
You have to take part on a (minimum) 2 day course about gun law, technicalities, balistics etc.
You have to buy a gunsafe passing regulations for your desired gun.
You request kind of like a copy of your criminal record at ykmour townhall.
You give a the paperwork for all the above (including pictures of the safe actually being set up with a picture of it’s serial number matching the one on the bill, so you don’t fake the buy or return it) to your regional police department together with the actual request for the gun allowance.
They can do a backgroudcheck on you with the german equivalent of the FBI, national secret service.
Up to here it took you around 18months, elaborate invest in time, effort and money.
If you pass and all is processed you get the genral allowance and there is one slot for exactly that one gun type you need in there, from here on you are in a state gun registration system and every cop can see it from his car system.
You go to the store or webshop and buy the gun, your allowance needs to be there and the entry will be stamped and singed by the shop owner adding the guns serial. (He later also enters al tbis in the cederal registration system)
You go back to the regional police with the allowance, the confirm everything and only now a SEPERATE allowance to buy ammunition for THIS gun is given.
The state is allowed to check and without cause if you are storing and maintaining the guns correctly, so they can show up at your house and ask you to show them the safe and the guns!
Correctly also means “unaccessible to anybody without allowance” this is why key operated safes are basically nowhere, because if your family can get to the key they can get to the guns. Biometrics or code that only you know is the thing.
The allowance is ‘purpose’ based, so for a sport shooter, no carrying, no transporting loaded around. Just unloaded in a closed (better locked) container/bag from your home to a range, ammunition in a seperate bag/container.
You get caught violating any of these lager rules or even other misdemeanors that show you are unreliable can (and mist likely) will lead to all guns confiscated.
In the US, you have to:
Have a pulse.
That’s it. With the private sale loophole, anyone can get any weapon someone is willing to sell privately. Heck, they don’t even need to have the money for it if they can convince a friend or relative to buy it for them.
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