The families of the Newtown shooting victims have decided to take legal action.
Two years after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the victims’ families have reportedly joined a class-action lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used by the 20-year-old shooter, Adam Lanza.
None of the families or their attorneys have commented on the lawsuit against Bushmaster, the company that made the semi-automatic rifle Lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults.
Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal broke the silence for them on Sunday.
“Two years [have] passed and Congress has been complicit in the gun violence in this country by failing to act. And I share the frustration that may in part underlie the reason for this legal redress,” Blumenthal said, according to CBS News.
Michael Koskoff, who represented Michael Jackson’s family in its suit against the promotor of his last tour, and Karen Hinton, a former Bill Clinton aide, have reportedly joined with the Newtown families.
“If you can prove that the manufacturer knew in some way that the gun would end up the hands of a proscribed purchaser, someone who shouldn’t have the gun, you might be able to show liability. But it is going to be very difficult,” Robert Fellows, a New York attorney told CBS.
There was no ceremony Sunday in Newtown marking the second anniversary of the shooting,
