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Family of Red Sox Fan Sues Gun Maker FN Herstal

14 September 2005

Associated Press

BOSTON, Massachusetts — The family of a Red Sox fan killed outside Fenway Park when a police officer fired a pepper-spray pellet into her eye sued the gun maker for $10 million. The lawsuit by the family of Emerson College student Victoria Snelgrove, 21, charges that FN Herstal USA falsely claimed its pellets don't break the skin. The hardness and shape of the pellets "almost guarantee a serious or fatal injury if a vital area, such as the eye, is hit," the suit... (GunPolicy.org)

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