The city of Buffalo, New York, filed a lawsuit against several gun manufacturers, including Beretta, Glock, Remington, and Smith & Wesson, seven months after a man shot and killed 10 people with a Bushmaster AR-15 in a grocery store.
The city is suing Bushmaster and gun parts manufacturer Arm or Ally and Polymer80.
According to CNN, the suit was filed in Erie County's New York Supreme Court.
Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown, a Democrat, announced the suit, saying: "Members of our community have suffered too much and for too long from gun violence. We must do everything we can to decrease gun violence. Enabling the possession of illegal guns destroys lives and deeply affects our neighborhoods, especially in Black and Brown communities."
The suit says city leaders are looking for an "abatement fund with sufficient capital to eliminate the public nuisance [the said gun and gun parts makers] are responsible for creating, exacerbating, and/or perpetuating."
Peyton Gendron, 19, an avowed white supremacist, pleaded guilty in November to first-degree murder and other state charges in a mass shooting that killed 10 people in May at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo.
According to ABC News, Buffalo is experiencing a wave of crime that began in 2020. In the first three months of 2021, the number of people shot reportedly increased 140% from 2020.
New York ranks among the most regulated gun-control states. It has a red-flag law, universal background checks, an "assault weapons" ban, a "high capacity" magazine ban, and gun registration requirements, among other measures.
The Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranks New York as third in the country for gun control.
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