Why is Remington Arms trending?
THE nation's oldest gunmaker shipped thousands of striking items to lawyers for Sandy Hook families suing for wrongful marketing. Remington Arms constructed the AR-15-style rifle used by Adam Lanza to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. Remington Arms was trending on social media in July of 2021 after it was revealed that certain items were sent to lawyers for Sandy Hook families. Attorneys found 18,000 "random cartoons" and 15,000 pictures of people go-karting and dirt-biking, according to the Connecticut Post. Having repeatedly represented to the (families) and this court that it was devoting extensive resources to making what it described as 'substantial' document productions  Remington has instead made the plaintiffs wait years to receive cartoon images, gender reveal videos, and duplicate copies of catalogues, reads a complaint filed in court, according to the newspaper. There is no possible reasonable explanation for this conduct.  2 A Remington Arms AR-15-style rifle Credit: Remington  The complaint adds: When the seemingly random cartoons, images, videos, duplicates, and other items noted are accounted for, Remington, it would seem, has spent the better part of seven years producing 6,606 potentially useful documents in response to the plaintiffs requests." Remington lawyer James Vogts told the newspaper that the gunmaker "will respond to this motion in the coming weeks, and point out what it believes are incorrect representations, numerous half-truths, and important omissions by (families) counsel." Lawyers for the family said that the gunmaker "has treated discovery as a game." Unwilling to have this case decided by a jury on the merits with a full record, Remington has sought delay and obfuscation at every turn," the attorneys said, according to the newspaper. Twenty young children and six adult staff members were killed by Lanza nearly a decade ago with the Remington weapon. The Sandy Hook families claim Remington violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act by marketing its Bushmaster XM15-E2S, an AR-15 style weapon, to civilians. Weighed down by lawsuits, Remington filed for bankruptcy for the second time in two years in 2020.