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Remington offers Sandy Hook families $33M to settle lawsuit

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - 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 Remington filed the offers late Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court in Connecticut.

The nine families suing the company, who are being offered nearly $3.7 million apiece, are considering the proposals, their lawyers said.A Hartford lawyer representing Remington, James Rotondo, declined to comment Wednesday.A Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle made by Remington was used to kill 20 first graders and six educators at the Newtown, Connecticut, school on Dec.

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