AR-15 rifle maker offers $33M settlement to Sandy Hook families

The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is offering some of the victims’ families nearly $33m to settle a lawsuit over how the gunmaker marketed the firearm to the public.

The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims’ families nearly $33m to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the public. Lawyers for now-bankrupt Remington filed the offers late Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court in Connecticut in the United States. The nine families suing the company, who are being offered nearly $3.7m apiece, are considering the proposals, their lawyers said. A Hartford lawyer representing Remington, James Rotondo, declined to comment Wednesday. The settlement offers were filed a day after a judge denied Remington’s request to dismiss the lawsuit.