The city of Buffalo has filed a 'first of its kind' lawsuit against the gun industry, seven months after a teenager killed 10 people and wounded three others at a grocery store. The lawsuit names as defendants some of the nation's biggest firearms makers.
on May 14 at a Tops market on the east side of Buffalo left 10 Black people dead. Police said the 18-year-old suspect, Payton Gendron, used a semi-automatic rifle in the massacre that he purchased legally but manipulated to fit a high capacity ammunition magazine that is illegal to possess in New York. It was bought at a gun shop in Pennsylvania.to 15 charges in all, including domestic terrorism motivated by hate, murder and attempted murder.
Brown added, "The conduct of certain gun manufacturers has unreasonably interfered with the public's right to use open space free from fear." There was no immediate response to the lawsuit from the gun manufacturers and retailers named as defendants.The lawsuit charges the gun manufacturers and retailers have "maintained the public nuisance of unlawful possessing, transportation and disposition of firearms and the utilization of guns in the commission of an offense" by marketing firearms to emphasize their "high capacity and ease of concealment.
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