Uvalde school shooting: Families of victims sue Meta, Call Of Duty makers and gun company

The families of some of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting have announced new legal action against three companies they say effectively helped to "train" the gunman to carry out the attack.( @)

Legal action against Instagram parent company Meta Platforms, the maker of the video game series Call Of Duty and the company that made the gun used in the May 2022 shooting was announced on the two-year anniversary of the attack in Texas in the US.( @)

Salvador Ramos, 18, killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on 24 May 2022.

The new legal cases accuse the companies of partnering to promote and create content designed to glorify combat, gun violence and killing.

Josh Koskoff, a lawyer for the families, called the companies a "three-headed monster" that "knowingly exposed [the gunman] to the weapon, conditioned him to see it as a tool to solve his problems and trained him to use it".( @)

"There is a direct line between the conduct of these companies and the Uvalde shooting," Mr Koskoff said.

According to the lawsuits, Ramos had played versions of Call Of Duty since he was 15, including one that allowed him to effectively practise with the version of the rifle he used at the school.( @)

It claimed the company created a "hyperrealistic" game where "although the killing is virtual, the weapons are authentic - they are designed to perfectly imitate their real-life counterparts in look, feel, recoil and accuracy".

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