Wisconsin appeals court reinstates spa shooting lawsuit
Source: Associated Press
Todd Richmond, Associated Press
Updated 12:20 pm, Thursday, April 19, 2018
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court reinstated a lawsuit Thursday against a website that facilitated the purchase of a gun used in a mass shooting in suburban Milwaukee five years ago, rejecting arguments that federal law absolves the website's operators of liability.
A restraining order barred Radcliffe Haughton from possessing a firearm, but he purchased a gun through firearms trading site Armslist.com that he used to kill his wife, Zina Daniel Haughton, and two of her co-workers at Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield in 2012. He wounded four other people during the shooting before killing himself.
The court ruling sends a signal nationwide that websites that enable gun deals must take reasonable care to prevent people prohibited from purchasing firearms form obtaining them, said Jonathan Lowy, an attorney with the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which filed the lawsuit.
"This is an extremely important win," Lowy said. "This is very persuasive precedent to courts around the country."
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