By The Wall Street Journal
Published on May 24, 2024
Families of children killed in the 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, filed lawsuits Friday accusing companies including the maker of “Call of Duty” videogames, Instagram and an AR-15 rifle manufacturer of colluding to market military-style semiautomatic guns to minors.
The two lawsuits were filed in state courts in California and Texas by dozens of family members and survivors of the Uvalde school shooting, in which 19 children and two adults died. They target more than a dozen companies, including Daniel Defense and several gun-accessory companies, videogame publisher Activision and its parent company, Microsoft, as well as Instagram and parent Meta