Missouri dealer settles $2.2M case over gun-shop liability

A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father settled Tuesday in a wrongful death case for $2.2 million, which the plaintiff's lawyer says is the largest settlement since a 2005 federal law that shields gun manufacturers from most similar lawsuits. Washington, D.C.-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence lawyer Jonathan Lowy told The Associated Press before a Tuesday settlement hearing in Lexington, Missouri, that the case could have a national impact and is significant following the enactment of a federal law barring some state-level actions against gun dealers after buyers use the weapons to harm others.