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The Volunteer Moms Poring Over Archives to Prove Clarence Thomas Wrong
In 2018, after a teenage gunman murdered 14 students and three faculty members at a high school in Parkland, Florida, Jennifer Birch, fearing for the…
Attorneys for survivors of Buffalo shooting and family of victim file lawsuits against shooter’s parents, gun companies and social media companies
Buffalo, NY (CNN) – Attorneys representing survivors and a family member of one of the victims who died in the racist mass…
Buffalo Mass Shooting Witnesses Sue Gun Industry, Others for Trauma
Buffalo, NY (WaPo) – In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, survivors of last year’s Buffalo mass shooting alleged that members of the gun industry,…
Buffalo Shooting Witnesses File Lawsuit Over Trauma They Endured
Buffalo, NY (PBS) – Last year, a white gunman killed ten people in a racist shooting at a grocery store in a predominantly Black area…
Witnesses of Buffalo mass shooting file rare lawsuit against social media and gun companies
16 people who witnessed a gunman open fire at a Tops grocery store — but avoided critical injuries — sued Tuesday over the trauma they…
Teens Buying Ghost Guns Online, with Deadly Consequences
Springfield, VA (WaPo) – The families of the two teens, with the help of the anti-gun-violence group Everytown for Gun Safety, are now suing the…
LAPD Found 700 ‘Ghost Guns’ — Now It Is Getting $5 Million
California (LA Times) – In 2020, over the course of numerous investigations, the Los Angeles Police Department recovered more than 700 “ghost guns” — weapons…
L.A. City Attorney Wins $5M Settlement From Biggest U.S. Ghost Gun Manufacturer
California (LA Daily News) – The nation’s largest manufacturer of ghost gun kits must pay millions of dollars in penalties and must conduct customer background…
Two Children, a Burst of Gunfire and the Year That Came After
Uvalde, TX (NYT) – The better part of a year had elapsed since a gunman entered the classroom where Noah Orona and Mayah Zamora were…
‘Please Hurry’: 10-Year-Old’s Courageous 911 Call the Day of Uvalde Shooting
Texas (ABC News) – Thirty minutes into the deadly siege on her classroom in south Texas, a 10-year-old student did something extraordinary: She picked up…
Suit Settled Over Sale of Texas School Shooter’s Ammo
Houston, TX (AP) – The families of those killed and injured in a 2018 Texas high school shooting have settled a lawsuit they had filed against a Tennessee-based online…
Santa Fe Shooting Victims’ Families Reach Settlement With Ammo Company That Sold Bullets to Gunman
Houston, TX (HPM) – Families of the victims of the Santa Fe High school shooting in 2018 have settled with an online ammunition store that…
Santa Fe High School Shooting Victims’ Families, Survivors Settle With Ammunition Seller
Houston, TX (USA TODAY) – Survivors and families of the victims of a mass shooting at a Texas high school settled a lawsuit with companies that sold and shipped…
Uvalde Mom Sues Police, Gunmaker in School Massacre
Washington (AP) — The last conversation Sandra Torres had with her 10-year-old daughter was about her nervous excitement over whether she’d make the all-star softball…
Highland Park Shooting Victims Say They Are Fighting Back as They Cope Day by Day
Chicago, IL (WBEZ) — Lauren Bennett, who was shot twice, is among a group suing a gunmaker over the shooting. “Anything that could help prevent…
Highland Park Shooting Victims, Families Are Suing Gunmaker Smith & Wesson, Others
Chicago, IL (WBEZ) — The nearly dozen suits, filed in Lake County, claims the shooting was “predictable and preventable.” They add to the over 100…
Victims of Highland Park Shooting Sue Gun Maker and Retailers
The New York Times — Survivors and families of victims of the Fourth of July shooting in Highland Park, Ill., have filed lawsuits against Smith…
Highland Park Fourth of July Massacre: First Lawsuits Filed, Say Attack ‘Predictable and Preventable’
(Chicago Sun Times) — Families of three people killed in the Highland Park Fourth of July parade massacre and dozens who were wounded filed suit…
Essay: Three years ago, one of Sacramento’s working-class heroes was murdered at a library – don’t let it be in vain
California (Sacramento News & Review) – It’s been more than three years now since my wife Amber was senselessly murdered. Three years since she was…
Cities Sue ‘Ghost Gun’ Parts Manufacturers as Homemade Firearms are Tied to More Crimes
(USA Today) – In San Diego, a shooting spree in April killed one man and injured four others. In Brooklyn, New York, a 17-year-old student…
Justices barreling into gun rights standoff have little precedent to guide them
Washington, D.C. (CN) — Over a decade since it last waded into the issue, the conservative-majority Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in…
The Two Newest Supreme Court Justices Could Redraw the Road Map for the Second Amendment in Courts
(CNN) – The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that could broaden gun rights nationwide and transform how the Second Amendment is interpreted…
In Battle at Supreme Court Over N.Y. Gun Law, a Surprising Split Among Conservatives
(WaPo) – When the Supreme Court first declared an individual right to gun ownership more than a decade ago, the court’s conservative majority relied on…
New York Judge’s Gun Permit Denials Trigger Big Supreme Court Case
Troy, NY (Reuters) – Justice Richard McNally Jr., a New York state trial court judge, knows he has a reputation among gun enthusiasts in the…