After years of legal combat over an allegedly dangerous flaw in its most popular rifle, Remington Arms Co. is close to surrendering. The company has agreed to pursue settlement of proposed class claims and to fix a suspect trigger mechanism in its Model 700 bolt-action firearms.
Remington and the plaintiffs filed a terse notice on July 2 in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri that an agreement had been reached in Pollard v. Remington, one of at least four putative class actions and more than 3,200 individual complaints filed between 1992 and 2004. The plaintiffs allege the rifle can fire even when the trigger is not pulled, and even when the safety is on.
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