Sandy Hook Elementary School News

Gun Maker Offers $33M to Settle Suit by Sandy Hook Families

The maker of the rifle used in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has offered some of the victims’ families nearly $33 million to settle their lawsuit over how the company marketed the firearm to the public. Lawyers for now-bankrupt …

Sandy Hook Families Get Gunmaker Trial Nine Years After Attack

Family members of nine children and educators killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre have received a September 2021 trial date in their landmark lawsuit against Remington Arms Co. over its marketing of the semiautomatic military-style rifle the …

Sandy Hook Parents Lose Appeal Against Newtown Over School Shooting

A Connecticut state appeals court has rejected an appeal by the parents of two shooting victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre to hold the town of Newtown and its school district liable. While calling the case “undeniably tragic,” the …

Rural School Officials: Give Texas Teachers Guns

Superintendents of three small rural school districts that allow some teachers to carry guns told Texas lawmakers on Jan. 28 that the practice provides a critical measure of safety for students in the event of a campus shooting, but a …