Missouri dealer to settle in case over gun-shop liability

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     (AP) – A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri

woman who used it to fatally shoot her father is settling in a wrongful death

case.

     A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Lexington.

     Wellington resident Janet Delana says she asked Odessa Gun & Pawn in June 2012

not to sell a firearm to her schizophrenic daughter, Colby Sue Weathers.

     Weathers bought a gun from the store two days later. Within hours, Weathers

fatally shot her father and attempted suicide.

     Lawyers for the pawn shop unsuccessfully argued to the Missouri Supreme Court

that a federal law blocks such lawsuits.

     Delana’s lawyer from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence says the

settlement is set to be the largest against gun stores since the 2005 federal

law.




   

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