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By Scott Malone
BOSTON (Reuters) - The families of nine people killed in a 2012 massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school sued the maker of the gun used in the attack on Monday, saying the weapon should not have been sold because it had no reasonable civilian purpose.
Apparently these weapons are only being sold to murderers.
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They have no standing. Semi-auto guns have been used by Americans for over 100 years. Anyone can sue anybody for anything in this country.
People have sued before -- results -- butkiss!
The AR is probably the most popular gun ever. I love'em, great guns.
Just lawyers taking advantage of suffering victims by looking for a big payday from any deep pockets.
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/s397/text
Even if they do get a sympathetic jury, it will eventually be overridden by appeals due to the above law. The plaintiffs must be able to prove that the gun manufacturers knowingly violated state or federal statutes in gun sales and marketing by knowingly selling guns to those who aren't allowed to own guns. This cannot be proven as the guns involved were purchased legally. However, they should have a case against the estate of Lanza's mother.
This lawsuit is akin to suing Ford because a drunk driver kills a bunch on kids on a bus with his Ford truck.
Good luck with that 
can kill more by driving a car thru a crowd.
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act is also commonly referred to as the "Gun Protection Act." The law dismissed all current claims against gun manufacturers in both federal and state courts and pre-empted future claims. The law could not be clearer in stating its purpose: "To prohibit causes of action against manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms or ammunition products, and their trade associations, for the harm caused solely by the criminal or unlawful misuse of firearm products or ammunition products by others when the product functioned as designed and intended." There are some narrow exceptions for which liability is allowed, such as actions against transferors of firearms who knew the firearm would be used in drug trafficking or a violent crime by a party directly harmed by that conduct.
