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The Ontario Superior Court of Justice
has dismissed a motion by Smith & Wesson Corp to throw out a
potential class action for negligent manufacturing of the firearm
used in a mass shooting in Toronto:
Price v. Smith & Wesson
Corp., 2021 ONSC 1114.
In July 2018, a loan gunman shot and
killed two people on a busy street in Toronto and injured several
others in a notorious incident known as the "Danforth
Shooting." The firearm used in the shooting was a Smith &
Wesson handgun which had been reported stolen in 2015 by a gun