More groups request to support Sandy Hook appeal

By Daniel Terrill

Americans hold signs memorializing the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre as they participate in the March on Washington for Gun Control in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 26, 2013. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
National and state gun control supporters filed the second wave of requests to Connecticut’s Supreme Court asking if they could submit briefs supporting an appeal by families of Sandy Hook victims in their case against Remington Arms.
The Brady Campaign, the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, CT Against Gun Violence, and the Newtown Action Alliance filed requests late last month. They offered to either provide a heightened perspective on issues involved in the case or greater clarity of the laws cited in the appeal.
In their appeal, the families said the gun maker flaunted the combat applications of the AR-15, the civilian version of the military’s standard rifle, in their public marketing efforts before the shooting. They argued Remington targeted a “younger demographic of users” with ads linking the rifle to “macho vigilantism and military-style insurrection,” traits that appealed to the 20-year-old “video-game playing, military-obsessed” gunman.
The court dismissed the case last year saying the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provided broad protections for Remington since it was criminal misuse that caused

Source: Guns.com