Mass shooting victims ask Fourth Circuit to hold gun industry accountable for ads (Courthouse News Service)
Courthouse News | October 21, 2025
The Fourth Circuit heard Tuesday from the victims of a mass shooting who hope to hold firearm manufacturers liable for their injuries.
On April 22, 2022, 23-year-old Raymond Spencer of Virginia barricaded himself in his Washington, D.C. apartment and fired over 230 rounds at Edmund Burke College Preparatory School. Spencer later killed himself, but not before severely injuring Karen Lowy and security guard Antonio Harris.
Harris, Lowy and her 13-year-old daughter sued 14 firearm industry members, including gun, weapon accessories and ammunition manufacturers. The plaintiffs claim that the industry members should bear responsibility for marketing tactics aimed at impressionable young men, in which they depict their products as tools of war despite selling them to civilians.
“All of whom have brought suit against manufacturers of AR-15 weapons, ammunition and accessories based on their deceptive and misleading advertising which glorified and promoted their products for militaristic and illegal purposes to a young man who then replicated exactly what he saw in defendant’s advertising,” attorney Liz Lockwood of Ali Lockwood, representing the victims, told the three-judge panel.
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