R.I.P. Scout26
FedEx and UPS also being sued over the Uvalde massacre:https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/uvalde-school-shooting-fedex-ups-lawsuits-19498710.php(source is not The Babylon Bee, so apparently it's serious)
The suit also contends that FedEx, before shipping the rifle, should have sent a signed, sworn statement about the purchase to the shooter’s home and waited until it got back a receipt confirming delivery.
I must be missing something. Wouldn't the rifle be shipped to the FFL and not to the buyer's home?
It also focuses on the gunman's online purchase of a Hellfire Gen 2 snap-on trigger system, which converts a firearm from semi-automatic to fully automatic. The shooter was underage when he bought the attachment, but UPS shipped it to Uvalde anyway, according to the lawsuit.
In the aftermath of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, law enforcement recovered a Hellfire trigger device from one of the classrooms where the massacre took place. The device – nearly identical to a bump stock – allows a semi-automatic rifle to fire at a rate similar to a fully automatic machine gun. In 2019, ATF prohibited the manufacture, sale, and possession of bump stocks, which were used in the deadly 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
According to a Texas House committee report on the massacre, the gunman went online to buy two assault rifles — including the one he used at Robb Elementary — immediately after he turned 18 on May 16, 2022, a week before the shooting. The minimum age for such purchases is 18.The lawsuit says that regardless, FedEx had a legal obligation to verify the buyer's age before shipping the weapon and failed to do so.
The criminal charges against the former police are the first in connection with what was the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.District Attorney Christina Mitchell revealed in January that she had convened a grand jury to weigh possible charges.
