The Brief
- Fleet Farm has agreed to settle a lawsuit more than three years after the State of Minnesota accused the Midwest retailer of negligently selling guns.
- The FOX 9 Investigators previously revealed many of the guns mentioned in the lawsuit surfaced at crime scenes across the Twin Cities.
- One firearm sold by Fleet Farm was recovered at a mass shooting scene in St. Paul and in a separate case, a loaded gun was discovered by a 6-year-old boy. Many guns have still not been recovered.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – Fleet Farm has agreed to pay $1 million and implement “significant” policy changes to prevent the illegal sale of guns to straw buyers – someone who purchases a firearm on behalf of someone else.
Fleet Farm to change how it handles, tracks gun purchases
Timeline:
The agreement comes more than three years after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison filed a civil lawsuit against the Midwest retailer, alleging the company negligently sold dozens of firearms to straw buyers.
One of those guns was later used in the fatal mass shooting at the Truck Park bar in St. Paul in October 2021.…