US gunmaker offers £24 million to Sandy Hook school shooting families

The settlement offers were filed a day after a judge denied Remington’s request to dismiss the lawsuit

Wed, 28 Jul, 2021 - 17:39

Dave Collins, Associated Press

The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in the US has offered some of the victims’ families nearly 33 million US dollars (£24 million) to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the public.

Lawyers for now-bankrupt Remington filed the offers late on Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court in Connecticut. The nine families suing the company, who are being offered nearly 3.7 million US dollars apiece (£2.2 million), are considering the proposals, their lawyers said.