(Bloomberg) -- The maker of the assault rifle used in the 2012 massacre of more than two dozen students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School was ordered to allow its executives to be questioned ahead of a trial of a lawsuit by victims’ families, pushing the case further than most such suits have reached.
Connecticut State Judge Barbara Bellis on Tuesday set a trial for April 3, 2018, "marking another major victory for families of the victims in their effort to hold gun companies responsible" for the 2012 school shooting, their law firm, Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC, said in a statement.
The families claim Bushmaster Firearms International LLC, a unit of Cerberus Capital Management LP’s Remington Arms Co., engineered the rifle specifically for the U.S. military to kill in combat and is being wrongfully sold to civilians to make a profit. In a ruling last week, Bellis denied a request to toss the case on the grounds that it was automatically blocked by a 2005 federal law shielding gunmakers from liability in most cases.
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