Gun Policy and Liability

Mean Arms will pay $1.75 million to survivors and families of the 10 victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting and is permanently barred from selling its MA‑Lock magazine‑locking device in New York, after Attorney General Letitia James alleged the company’s packaging included step‑by‑step instructions for removing the lock that undermined the state’s high‑capacity‑magazine ban. Victims’ families and survivors separately settled with gun seller Vintage Firearms LLC — which has permanently closed and whose owner agreed not to seek another federal firearms license — and there have been confidential settlements with the parents of shooter Payton Gendron while his federal hate‑crime and weapons trial, in which the DOJ is seeking the death penalty, remains pending.