Online Ammunition Dealer Reaches Deal With Families Of Santa Fe High School Mass Shooting Victims, Lawsuit Says

SANTA FE, Texas – An online ammo dealer reportedly reached an agreement with survivors of the Santa Fe High School shooting and several family members of the victims.

In accordance with Everytown.orgwebsite saying they are America’s largest gun violence prevention organization, the family of Sabika Aziz Sheikh, a 17-year-old exchange student killed in a mass shooting, and 10 other plaintiffs reached a global settlement in Thursday. with online ammunition retailer Luckygunner LLC and associated company Red Stag Fulfillment LLC.

In the lawsuit, the prosecution stated that Dimitrios Pagurtzis, a 17-year-old shooter who killed 10 teachers and students, accessed firearms from his family’s home and loaded them with cartridges he bought online from the website Luckygunner.comalthough he was too young to make the deal.

In addition, the lawsuit stated that the company acted “carelessly and with willful blindness” during the transaction because it did not verify the age of the client.

Overall, according to prosecutors, it took Pagurtsis two minutes to purchase this ammunition online, which would otherwise be impossible if proper steps were taken to ensure the buyer was over 18 years of age.

To the opposition Luckygunner stuck to their line of reasoning, stating that they were not legally responsible for the Santa Fe High School massacre, even stating that they believed they were entitled to immunity in that case. Each of these arguments has been repeatedly rejected by every court that has heard the case. news release to read.

The seller of Luckygunner, LLC filed an appeal last year. The appeal was later. rejected by the Texas Supreme Court.

“ lawsuit alleged that Luckygunner acted carelessly and with willful blindness when it sold ammunition to the 17-year-old shooter through two fully automated transactions that took less than two minutes to complete. The lawsuit alleged that Luckygunner deliberately created an online sales system by which it would not know or verify the age of its customers, even though federal law prohibits anyone under the age of 18 from buying handgun ammunition (and 21 if the ammunition purchased from a licensed dealer). The lawsuit also alleged that a related company, Red Stag Fulfillment, LLC, shipped Luckygunner ammunition to the 17-year-old shooter without doing its own age verification, even though it knew Luckygunner did not verify the age of its customers. “.

With the lawsuit concluded, Luckygunner agreed to establish and maintain a point-of-sale age verification system for all ammunition sales.

Under this system, anyone whose age cannot be verified or who is under 21 is denied a sale.

This agreement between the two parties was noted Everytown.org as the first deal of its kind and a landmark agreement after three years of “stubborn litigation”.

Sabica’s parents represented the litigation division of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, Everytown Law and Clint McGuire of the law firm Martinez & McGuire PLLC.

The Everytown Law team, representing the family of Sabiki Aziz Sheikh, included Alla Lefkowitz, Senior Director of Positive Litigation; Molly Thomas-Jensen, Associate Director, Positive Litigation; Kristen Hitchcock, Counsel; and Andrew Nellis, Counsel.

“Nothing will bring Sabika back,” said Farah Naz, Sabika’s mother. “But we hope this agreement sends a message to other sellers of dangerous products that you are responsible for ensuring that your products do not fall into the wrong hands.”

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