Families sue Wal-Mart, Others for Selling Guns Used in Murders

By Jenn Jacques

The families of the victims in the Overland Park shooting are suing the stores that sold firearms to a straw purchaser that were later used to murder three innocent people in Kansas.

F. Glenn Miller Jr., a white supremacist convicted felon, recruited John Mark Reidle to purchase the guns he later used to shoot and kill William Corporon, Reat Underwood and Terri LaManno.

The Kansas City Star reported:

The family of William Corporon and his grandson, Reat Underwood, who were fatally shot outside the Jewish Community Center, filed suit Tuesday in Johnson County District Court.

In two identical suits on behalf of each victim, they allege that employees of a Wal-Mart store in Republic, Mo., were negligent when they sold a shotgun later used to kill Corporon and Reat.

“Gun dealers, including Wal-Mart, owe a duty to use the highest standard of care to prevent the supply of firearms to those prohibited from possessing them,” they said in their suits.

Miller, who was a previously convicted felon, could not legally buy or possess firearms.

According to the lawsuits, he enlisted another southern Missouri man, John Mark Reidle, to purchase the weapons.

A spokesman for Wal-Mart said that the company expresses condolences to the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms