Gun maker To Ask Supreme Court To Hear Newtown Ruling Appeal

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Photo credit SANDY HOOK, CT - MARCH 14: A sign stands near the site of the December 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting on the day of the National School Walkout on March 14, 2018 in Sandy Hook Connecticut. Several hundred students at the school, near the site of the Sandy Hook school massacre of December 14, 2012, staged a protest one month after 17 people were killed at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Media and visitors were not allowed on the Newtown High campus for the event. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting intends to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a Connecticut court ruling that reinstated a wrongful death lawsuit against the company filed by victims' relatives. Remington notified the Connecticut Supreme Court of its plans to pursue an appeal with the nation's highest court, according to court documents filed Friday. The Sandy Hook gunman used a Bushmaster semi-automatic rifle to kill 20 first-graders and six educators in 2012.

A survivor and relatives of ninevictims sued the Madison, North Carolina, gun maker. A lower Connecticut court dismissed the lawsuit. The state Supreme Court ruled last month that Remington can be sued over how it marketed the rifle to the public.

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