AG Letitia James sues maker of gun part for ‘aiding’ Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron

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AG Letitia James sues maker of gun part for ‘aiding’ Buffalo shooter Payton Gendron
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The lawsuit — which was filed Thursday, just three days before the one-year anniversary of the racism-fueled shooting — was brought against Mean Arms for its magazine lock part called t…

The 19-year-old white supremacist — whoin February for killing 10 black people at Tops Friendly Markets — said in his manifesto that he was able to take the MA lock off of an AR-15 within minutes by “using basic tools in his family’s home and following easily available instructions,” the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit alleges.

James says that Mean Arms’ knew that its device could easily be removed — and it even had instructions on how to do so on the packaging — yet it still advertised the item as making a gun compliant with New York laws designed to curb mass killings, the suit claims. AG James says Payton Gendron was able to easily remove a magazine lock so he could kill 10 people and injure three others in just two minutes.James blames Mean Arms for marketing a magazine lock as compliant with New York gun laws when the device could “easily be removed.”James says Mean Arms even put instructions on its packaging on how to remove the magazine lock from guns, making them deadlier.

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