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An Ontario Superior Court judge has accepted, in a preliminary decision in
Price v Smith & Wesson Corp, 2021 ONSC 1114, that gun manufacturers may have civil liability in Canada for losses caused by mass shootings when feasible safety measures could have prevented the harm but were not used.
The Danforth Shooting
In summer 2018, a mass shooting on Danforth Avenue in Toronto involving a stolen handgun claimed the lives of two people and injured many others. The stolen handgun was an M&P®40, designed and manufactured by the U.S. company Smith & Wesson Corp in 2005 and made available for sale in Canada in 2013. The M&P®40 is a semi-automatic pistol for military and police use and is not designed for hunting. It did not incorporate any so-called “smart gun” technology to thwart criminal acts by unauthorized users. Justice Paul Perell in his decision made reference to Canadian and U.S. statistics indicating that lost and stolen firearms pose a substantial threat to public safety
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The Ontario Superior Court of Justice
has dismissed a motion by Smith & Wesson Corp to throw out a
potential class action for negligent manufacturing of the firearm
used in a mass shooting in Toronto:
Price v. Smith & Wesson
Corp., 2021 ONSC 1114.
In July 2018, a loan gunman shot and
killed two people on a busy street in Toronto and injured several
others in a notorious incident known as the Danforth
Shooting. The firearm used in the shooting was a Smith &
Wesson handgun which had been reported stolen in 2015 by a gun
AP Photo/Keith Srakocic
A judge in Ontario, Canada has ruled that a potential class-action lawsuit filed against gunmaker Smith & Wesson by victims of a shooting and their family members can proceed, despite the novel legal theory being advanced by the attorneys pursuing the company.
Justice Paul Perell of the Ontario Superior Court says that even though the pistol used in a 2018 attack in Toronto that left two people dead and 13 injured was stolen from a Saskatchewan gun shop, lawyers can argue that the gun company should be held liable for the shooting because of the design of the firearm itself.