Remington offers $33 million to families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims

[Yota]

Kind of surprised by this. Maybe someone else knows more, but seems pretty bad precedent for the gun industry.

Remington offers $33 million to families of Sandy Hook school shooting victims
https://reut.rs/3iT0nuD

[Bailey Guns]

Didn't Remington just come out of bankruptcy?

[Eric P]

Never surrender to these antigun loonies.

What other industry can you sue and be taken seriously?

Did the gun malfunction? No, but the operator did.
Did the gun work as designed? Yes. It fired bullet when trigger was pulled.
Did the gun aim & fire without a trigger pull? Nope.
Did Remington sell the gun to a prohibited person? Nope.

Fvck the greedy money grubbing lawyers pushing this nonsense. Remington has zero liability in any murder when a criminal using thier product commits a crime.

Remington doesn't advertise thier products for murder or criminal activity. Actually quite the opposite, home defense and recreation.

Remington's lawyers need to grow a spine and leave any empathy for these families at the door. Sucks your family members were killed by a deranged criminal who stole the gun, but you don't deserve a penny of Remington's money nor a second of court time trying. Just go away and fall into history as a distant memory like every other shooting.

[Jumpstart]

Sets a bad precedent.

[Great-Kazoo]

Sets a bad precedent.

That's an understatement and, opened the gates to anti gun groups trying to bankrupt the gun manufactures.

They'll go after the low hanging fruit, first.



And to think some people thought gun sales would slow down.

[Sawin]

Oh that was stupid AF.

[BPTactical]

And now Century is feeling the heat regarding the Gilroy CA Garlic Festival shooting:
https://www.ktvu.com/news/lawsuit-re...n-manufacturer

[DaBull]

Worrisome for sure. Bankruptcy is a business decision, and when business decisions are made, they are often about the bottom line rather than core values. Maybe the new owners believe there is big profits in guns and ammo, but not if they have to deal with these lawsuits--so better to pay off and make them go away. Surely a short term solution with long term second and third order effects.

[Sawin]

If you haven't looked at Remington stuff in the last decade, you might not want to. It will just make you sad. The quality and craftsmanship is down the tubes from what it used to be and i can only imagine how bad it is now that it's Rem Arms ... i hope they bring back the quality and attention to detail from yonder year, but I am not holding my breath.

HBAR's issue with a brand new muzzle loader is one of a few examples I've encountered (second hand, admittedly).

[whitewalrus]

They likely figured it was cheaper to pay than to continue to pay lawyers to fight them.

Remington quality has been going south for a long while....I won't buy anything they are putting out these days.