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Judge Rules Newtown Lawsuit Against Gun Maker Can Go Forward

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A Connecticut Superior Court judgehas ruled that the lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School can go forward. 

Judge Barbara Bellis ruled Thursday that a federal law protecting gun makers from lawsuits does not prevent lawyers for the families of Sandy Hook victims from arguing that the AR-15 is a military weapon and should not have been sold to civilians.

A lawyer for the families had argued there is an exception in federal law that allows litigation against companies that know, or should know, that their weapons are likely to be used in a way that risks injury to others.

Twenty children and six educators were killed in the December 2012 shooting.

The sides are due back in court Tuesday.

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