Survivors of the victims have claimed that although Muhammad and Malvo were directly responsible for the deaths of the victims, both Bushmaster Firearms,Inc., and Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply (and their owners) also “should be held responsible.”
Audits by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms showed that Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply had “lost” guns (238 in a 3-year period) or “lost” documentation—including its records of the Muhammad–Malvo sale—yet Bushmaster Firearms continued to sell its guns to the shop.
that Bushmaster Firearms had an obligation not to
create an unreasonable risk of foreseeable harm
from the distribution of its guns. The company, they
claimed, failed to adequately investigate or screen