Attorneys for nine of the 26 educators and schoolchildren killed in the Sandy Hook school massacre filed their first legal briefs with the Connecticut Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon and repeated their claims that Remington was selling a weapon “without regard for its track record in facilitating mass murder.”
In the 62-page document filed with the high court, attorneys from Bridgeport-based Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder assert that Remington, which sold the Bushmaster AR-15 used by Adam Lanza, knew or should have known the weapon was meant only for battle. Lanza, who went on his shooting spree in the elementary school in December 2012, fired 154 bullets in about five minutes, killing more than two dozen people and injuring several others.
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