NEWTOWN, Conn. (1010 WINS) — The gunmaker of the AR-15 used during the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting reportedly subpoenaed the academic records of five children killed in Newtown, Connecticut.
The New York Post reports Remington Arms Co. is seeking the the report cards, attendance records, and disciplinary records of the slain kids.
Attorneys for nine of the 20 children killed by gunman Adam Lanza reportedly filed a motion Thursday seeking to halt additional subpoenas.
“There is no conceivable way that these [records] will assist Remington in its defense, and the plaintiffs do not understand why Remington would invade the families’ privacy with such a request,” the families lawyers said in a court filing.
Lanza, then-20, killed his mother and took the lives of 26 people, including six teachers before he took his own life in December 2012.
Remington also sought the employment records of four teachers killed.
Their filing shows Remington's lawyers subpoenaed the school district seeking “application and admission paperwork, attendance records, transcripts, report cards, disciplinary records, correspondence” and other school records of the children.
The Post reports the subpoenas are part of a "seven-year effort" to hold the major American gunmaker responsible for the massacre by arguing their semi-automatic weapons were "recklessly advertised" to people.
Remington, which has filed for bankruptcy in 2018 and in 2020, has been in a lawsuit for years by nine of the families killed during the shooting. The company recently offered to settle with the families for almost $33 million in July.