A judge just dealt a blow to a big gun-maker being sued over the Sandy Hook massacre

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57. There is no firearm mild enough to be 'less lethal' against a child's body.

Any high capacity firearm of any caliber would be adequate for the purpose employed at Sandy Hook. Meaning, any semi-automatic rifle with a removable magazine. Of which there are tens of millions in circulation in the united states right now.

There is no material difference between a civilian AK-47, AR-15, AR-10, SCAR-L, etc, for this purpose. They are all equally lethal against humans, especially children, and all capable of firing as fast as you pull the trigger, and all capable of accepting external ammunition stores that could increase the cyclic rate of the weapon.

Handguns would suffice as well, as we saw at Virginia Tech. The weapon used against Gabrielle Giffords would be similarly devastating in that use case.


There are no semi-automatic firearms that accept detachable magazines mild enough to be 'safer' in civilian hands, when considering the Sandy Hook attack. None. The would all be just as tragic.