Lawyers claim Activision 'chews up alienated teenage boys and spits out mass shooters'
Families of Unchosen shooting victims sue gun maker, Instagram, video game company
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Families of victims killed and injured in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, are suing Meta and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare publisher Activision Blizzard for advertising weapons to children. "[Activision] chews up alienated teenage boys and spits out mass shooters," attorney Katherine Mesner-Hage wrote in the complaint filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Activision is being targeted as an alleged "mass shooter training camp," while lawyers are calling Meta and Instagram "the firearms industry's best advertiser." The Uvalde victims and their families are also suing Daniel Defense, whose AR-15 rifle was used by 17-year-old Salvador Ramos to kill 21 people and injure 17 others at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022, in a separate lawsuit. was also submitted on Friday. Daniel Defense's DDM4v7 rifle, which the Uvalde victims' attorney called "an exclusive version of the AR-15," was highlighted on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's opening title page while Daniel Defense promoted it on Instagram. Ramos bought that gun minutes after his 18th birthday, which was eight days before the shooting at Robb Elementary School.
