4th Circ. Revives School Shooting Suit Against Gunmakers

Law360 | February 11, 2026

A split Fourth Circuit panel Wednesday revived a lawsuit against a number of gun manufacturers brought by two victims of a 2022 school shooting in Washington, D.C., finding that the victims indeed had standing to bring their claims. Fourth Circuit Judge Robert B. King wrote in the published opinion that the lower judge erred in finding that Karen Lowy and Antonio Harris had standing to bring their claims against Daniel Defense LLC and other gun companies over the shooting at Edmund Burke School. The majority held that Lowy and Harris have shown that the gun companies’ actions had a “predictable effect” on the gunman.

“Defendants’ advertising practices have predictably facilitated mass shootings like this for years, and our clients are relieved the Fourth Circuit agreed they can now try to hold them accountable,” Elizabeth Lockwood of Ali & Lockwood LLP told Law360 on Wednesday.

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