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Sandy Hook families reach $73m settlement with gunmaker
For the first time in US history a gunmaker has agreed to a major settlement over a mass shooting
Remington Arms is set to pay $73 million to the families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
In December 2012, 20 students and six adults were killed by a gunman brandishing a Remington Bushmaster AR-15 rifle at a school in Connecticut after killing his mother at home.
The families of five children and four adults will receive a sum of the money, with the firearms company also releasing all the discovery and disposition material to the public.
After years in courts trying to hold Remington accountable, the settlement will finally be paid through insurance policies.
One victim’s mother has marked the day as an “inflection point”.