The families of 20 first-graders killed by Adam Lanza at a Connecticut elementary school have sued the manufacturer of the military assault rifle used in the school shooting, Bloomberg's Phil Milford and Christian Dolmetsch reports. Lawyers for the families said in a statement that the Bushmaster Firearms International LLC rifle was specifically designed for combat, not for defending one's home or for hunting.
Milford and Dolmetsch report that the complaint alleges "Bushmaster knew or should have known that selling assault rifles to civilians posed an 'unreasonable and egregious' risk of injury to others."
The lawsuit also names names "Camfor, a firearm wholesaler, and Riverview Gun Sales, the East Windsor store where the gun was purchased by Lanza's mother, Nancy," the Connecticut Law Tribune reported. Lanza also killed his mother with the gun before killing 20 children, six adults and himself at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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