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(NBC NEWS) Ten families touched by the Newtown massacre filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against companies that made, distributed and sold the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle that Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary two years ago. The suit argues that the gun is a military assault weapon that never should have been on the general market.
“In business, measuring risk prior to producing, marketing, and selling a product or service is standard procedure,” Bill Sherlach, whose wife was killed in the Dec. 14, 2012, rampage in the small Connecticut town, said in a statement.
“For far too long the gun industry has been given legislative safe harbor from this standard business practice. These companies assume no responsibility for marketing and selling a product to the general population who are not trained to use it nor even understand the power of it.”
