firearms training unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting.

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Families who lost loved ones in the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School can proceed with their lawsuit against the gunmaker behind the AR-15 style rifle used in the deadly rampage.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected a Hail Mary appeal from Remington Arms, which was founded over 200 years ago and claims to be the oldest gun manufacturer in the U.S. The gunmaker had asked the high court to hear its case after the Connecticut Supreme Court [greenlit a lawsuit](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjmybb/sandy-hook-parents-can-now-sue-gunmaker-of-rifle-used-in-school-shooting) to hold the company accountable for the massacre that left 20 young children and six adults dead in Newtown, Connecticut.

Tuesday&#x2019;s decision allows victims of gun violence to sue gun manufacturers going forward and could have massive ramifications for the future of the industry. The justices didn't comment on why they chose to reject the appeal.

In November 2017, family members of the victims filed suit against Remington and accused the gunmaker of aggressively marketing and glorifying its products &#x2014; including the Bushmaster AR-15-style rifle used in the shooting &#x2014; to vulnerable young men.

Gun rights groups argued the case could upend existing protections afforded to the firearm industry by Congress. The families&#x2019; lawsuit challenges a 2005 federal law called the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which shields gun companies from liability and passed after aggressive lobbying from the NRA.

The NRA, Connecticut-based gun organizations, nine states, Second Amendment law professors, and 22 members of Congress had thrown their weight behind Remington.

One Friday afternoon five years ago, Nelba Márquez-Greene sent two of her children to school in Newtown, Connecticut. She only got one back.  As a marriage and family therapist, she’s well-versed in the language of trauma and grief. But her fluency has become a lot more personal since her 6-year-old daughter Ana was murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.  Márquez-Greene now apportions her energy thoughtfully. She knows this month, more than the others, she needs extra space to grieve, work, and be a mother and wife — not that her emotional and personal responsibilities can be easily separated. She’s the founder and director of the Ana Grace Project, founded in the memory of her daughter, that works to address social isolation and social justice in schools.  Márquez-Greene mourns the loss of her daughter, but she also mourns the version of herself that existed before the shooting; a woman with a naive but steadfast belief that she lived in a place where a mass display of gun violence could never happen.  “I would say that the only difference between the early days and now is that the shock has worn off,” Márquez-Greene said. “When you have lost a child, a beloved, prayed-for child, to gun violence, I will only say for us, it doesn’t get better.”

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_Cover image:_ _In this Jan. 28, 2013, file photo, firearms training unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson, of the Connecticut State Police, holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same make and model of gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)_

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