Facebook, Google, Twitch sued in wrongful death lawsuit on the anniversary of the mass shooting.
Loved ones of those killed in the 2022 Buffalo grocery store mass shooting filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday against a number of social media companies alleging they facilitated the teenage killer's white supremacist radicalization by allowing racist propaganda to fester on their platforms.
The lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court in Buffalo also names as defendants a gun dealer and body armor company, as well as the parents of the confessed killer, Payton Gendron.
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Among the defendants named in the lawsuit are Meta, the parent company of Facebook; the instant messaging app Snapchat; Discord, Reddit; Google, which owns YouTube; and Amazon, which owns Twitch, the site Gendron used to livestream the killing rampage.
The dark website 4chan is also named as a defendant, as well as the Vintage Firearms company and the RMA Armament company.
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New York sues gun component maker for alleged aiding illegal possession of assault weapons, including by Buffalo grocery store mass shooter
In one posting, Gendron admitted to illegally modifying the weapon in another way. He wrote that he used his father’s power drill to remove a state-mandated lock that prevented the attachment of magazines with more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
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"Since I live in New York, I had to buy a cucked version of this before illegally modifying it,’’ Gendron wrote. “Since I live in cucked New York, and I am only 18, I can’t legally buy a lower or a standard ‘assault rifle.’” He added that he “could’ve even bought a NY-safe featureless rifle, but what kind of cuck does that?”
According to the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, eight states and the District of Columbia have banned “large capacity ammunition magazines” for both rifles and handguns. The laws in the District and most of those states — California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Vermont — limit the number of allowable rounds to 10. Colorado authorizes 15 rounds for all firearms; Vermont allows 15 for handguns.
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Buffalo shooter Peyton Gendron easily disabled the lock on his AR-15 that was supposed to make it harder to reload. In fact, the company provides step-by-step instructions on how to do it.
MANHATTAN (CN) — Detachable magazines like the ones used by the teenage white supremacist who killed 10 people, most of them Black, at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo last year are supposed to be illegal in New York.
They allow shooters to keep firing without stopping or pausing to reload ammunition, making an attack that much more deadly.
But the gun purchased by Buffalo shooter Peyton Gendron was legal because it was outfitted with an MA Lock from a company called Mean Arms. New York’s attorney general sued that Georgia company Thursday, saying the lock is easy to remove with Mean Arms' own instructions, allowing users like Gendron to attach a high-capacity magazine.
Gendron described how he did just that in his online manifesto about the rampage, writing that it took him just minutes to remove the lock, which he called a “release,” that came installed on his AR-15. Gendron added a 30-round detachable magazine before spraying bullets into the Tops supermarket. New York bans high-capacity magazines exceeding 10 rounds of ammunition.
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In March, a federal court order blocked 10 national gun distributors from selling unfinished frames and receivers, pieces key to assembling ghost guns, into New York. That followed a North Carolina business agreeing in August 2022 to stop shipping those same parts to New Yorkers, with the company abandoning its defense in a lawsuit James’ office brought two months earlier.
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Several major tech companies were hit with a massive wrongful death lawsuit over last year’s racist grocery store massacre in Buffalo, New York, for allegedly feeding the convicted shooter “racist, antisemitic, and white supremacist propaganda.”
The 144-page suit from survivor Latisha Rogers and three victims’ families was filed in New York state court on Friday. The complaint names Facebook parent company Meta, Twitch owner Amazon, Google parent Alphabet ― which owns YouTube ― and Snapchat owner Snap, as well as Discord, Reddit and hate-filled website 4Chan. Also named are a body armor manufacturer, a firearms store, a gun accessories manufacturer and the shooter’s parents.
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