Lucky Gunner Settles With Shooting Victims’ Families
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 10 months ago
Survivors and families of the victims of a mass shooting at a Texas high school settled a lawsuit with companies that sold and shipped ammunition to the gunman, attorneys announced Thursday.
The “first-of-its-kind agreement” requires the seller to maintain an age verification system at the point of sale for all ammunition sales, according to Everytown Law, the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund.
Everytown said it could not comment further on the agreement or say if there was a monetary settlement.
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Under federal law, it is illegal for anyone under 18 to purchase handgun ammunition, and the age rises to 21 if the ammunition is bought from a licensed dealer.
Yet the gunman “seamlessly and quickly” made two purchases on the site, each in “less than two minutes,” according to the lawsuit. The suit alleged Tennessee-based LuckyGunner, LLC intentionally set up an online sales system through which it would not know or verify the ages of its customers.
They didn’t intentionally do anything except engage in legal commerce. If there were illegalities, they were on the part of the buyer.
I like Lucky Gunner and have bought from them before, but they are no different than any other online retailer. You verify your aga to proceed. That constitutes crime if you convey a falsehood, I would guess.
This is a bad precedent and I wish there had been another way than for Lucky Gunner to settle on this. This means they now come after every other retailer who sells ammunition online.
Not that I will get anything but a canned response, but I’ll reach out to them to see if there is more to this story than what was reported.
On February 13, 2023 at 12:22 am, Dan said:
That’s one of the many down sides to our “legal” system (sic). It’s become so extremely expensive to defend oneself in court from frivolous baseless lawsuits that they almost ALL end up settling prior to trial because the cost of trial exceeds the costs of the settlement.
This merely incentivizes assholes and shysters to perpetuate the use of the system as a means of wealth extraction and forced rights infringment. Make the loser of such lawsuits responsible for ALL costs and you’d see an enormous drop in civil lawsuits….to the ones where it’s patently obvious who wronged who. But the system isn’t interested in fair, justice, truth or rights. It’s really only concerned with moving wealth from one pocket to another with all the lawyers involve skimming vast profits off the top of that money stream.
On February 13, 2023 at 9:24 pm, Paul B said:
On instapundit it was said lucky gunner just agreed to do something they already did. Couple hundred thousand for that.
Until we say enough they will keep doing this shit.