Supreme Court ruling in Sandy Hook case could reveal gun manufacturer's confidential marketing....

(note: this is the Connecticut Supreme Court)

Supreme Court ruling in Sandy Hook case could reveal gun manufacturer’s confidential marketing strategy for semiautomaic firearms

From the day they stood together to announce their lawsuit in their Bridgeport attorney’s office four years ago, a group of Sandy Hook parents have said the same thing — all they wanted was to learn about the marketing strategy behind the Remington semiautomatic rifle used to kill their children.

Facing what seemed liked impenetrable Congressional protection for the gun industry, the odds grew longer when a state judge threw the case out. But last week’s stunning state Supreme Court ruling allowing the case to proceed has increased their chances of getting access to secret marketing documents that gun manufacturers like Remington have fought hard to protect.

“We’re not starting from a completely blank slate here. You don’t get to a marketing campaign like they have had targeting young men that wasn’t well thought out,” said Josh Koskoff, lawyer for the Sandy Hook families. “These families weren’t the target audience for Remington. The Sandy Hook shooter was their target. He was in the crosshairs of their marketing campaign, and he knew a lot about what that gun could do.”

The state Supreme Court, by a narrow margin, remanded the gun case back to Bridgeport Superior Court — a ruling that paves the way for the families to subpoena internal documents on how the gun companies have marketed the AR-15, which has become the weapon of choice for mass shooters. The gun manufacturers have closely guarded information on how they market the assault weapons.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-sandy-hook-gun-case-folo-20190317-hq77kvcvrzczze2bno74ousz64-story.html