Families of Sandy Hook victims reach $73 million settlement with Remington

Firearms training unit Detective Barbara Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle — the same make and model of the gun used in the Sandy Hook School shooting. (Jessica Hill/AP)

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Updated February 15, 2022 at 12:21 PM ET

Families of victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have reached an agreement to settle a lawsuit against the company that made the murder weapon, for $73 million.

“These nine families have shared a single goal from the very beginning: to do whatever they could to help prevent the next Sandy Hook. It is hard to imagine an outcome that better accomplishes that goal,” said Josh Koskoff, an attorney for victims’ families, in a statement on Tuesday.