更新时间： 2026年2月12日 / 美国东部时间上午6:23 / CBS/AP
州总检察长莱蒂西亚·詹姆斯周三表示，涉事一家枪支配件公司因2022年布法罗一家超市内造成10名黑人死亡的种族主义枪击事件，将向幸存者和受害者家属支付175万美元，并停止在纽约州销售该设备。
此次与总部位于佐治亚州的”卑劣武器”(Mean Arms)公司达成的协议，将解决詹姆斯提起的诉讼，并涵盖2022年在托普斯友好市场(Tops Friendly Market)袭击事件中不同受害者家属和幸存者的索赔。原告律师周三宣布，双方还达成协议，解决针对枪手佩顿·根德龙(Peyton Gendron)家人和枪支销售商Vintage Firearms LLC的单独诉讼。
针对Mean Arms的指控主要集中在一款用于将弹匣锁定在步枪上的配件。该锁本应防止人们更换大容量弹匣——这在纽约州是非法的。
但詹姆斯表示，根德龙轻松取下了AR-15式步枪上的锁，并加装了大容量弹匣。她还指出，该公司在产品包装背面提供了分步说明，指导如何取下这个锁。
“我们希望通过追究这家制造商的责任，并禁止其在纽约州销售该设备，能为布法罗民众带来一定程度的慰藉。”民主党人詹姆斯在该市的新闻发布会上说。
记者已就置评请求联系Mean Arms及其律师，但未获回应。
部分受害者家属周三与詹姆斯一同出席，并表示和解是向前迈出的一步。
“任何人都不应能走进商店，在两分钟内对一个社区、一个家庭、一个孩子造成如此巨大的伤害。”帕梅拉·普里切特(Pamela Pritchett)说，她的母亲珀尔·杨(Pearl Young)在袭击中丧生。杨是一名77岁的主日学校教师，还经营着一个食品储藏室。
协助代表部分幸存者和受害者家属的”全民法律”(Everytown Law)在一份声明中表示，Vintage Firearms已永久关闭，其所有者同意未来不再申请联邦枪支许可证。该组织的埃里克·蒂尔施韦尔(Eric Tirschwell)表示，其客户与根德龙父母的和解协议内容未公开。
枪手父母的律师和Vintage Firearms拒绝置评。
詹姆斯在一份声明中说：”布法罗托普斯超市发生的种族主义大规模枪击事件是一场难以承受的悲剧。我们在这起充满暴力和仇恨的可怕事件中失去了10个美好的生命，再多的钱也无法让这些人重归家人怀抱，也无法抹去整个社区被迫承受的创伤。今天，正义意味着责任追究，我们已确保这种设备永远不会再在我们州销售。”
当局称，白人枪手根德龙以布法罗一个黑人为主的社区内的托普斯超市为袭击目标。受害者年龄从32岁到86岁不等，包括一名保安、一名购物的男子、一名有9个孙辈的祖母，以及布法罗前消防专员的母亲。
根德龙于2022年11月承认多项州一级谋杀罪等指控，目前被判处终身监禁且不得假释。
联邦仇恨犯罪和武器指控的审判预计将于今年开始。根德龙已对此表示不认罪。司法部表示将寻求判处其死刑。
10名受害者年龄从32岁到86岁不等，其中包括8名顾客、商店保安和一名教堂执事——他负责接送购物者及其杂货。
Gun accessory company tied to racist shooting that killed 10 at Buffalo supermarket to pay $1.75 million
Updated on: February 12, 2026 / 6:23 AM EST / CBS/AP
The maker of a gun accessory tied to a racist shooting that killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo will pay $1.75 million to survivors and victims’ families and stop selling the device in New York, state Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday.
The agreement with Georgia-based Mean Arms settles a lawsuit filed by James and covers claims from various victims’ families and survivors of the 2022 attack at Tops Friendly Market. They also reached agreements to resolve their own separate suits against gunman Payton Gendron’s family and a gun seller, Vintage Firearms LLC, the plaintiffs’ lawyers announced Wednesday.
The claims against Mean Arms focused on an item that locks a magazine onto a rifle. The lock is supposed to keep people from swapping in high-capacity magazines, which are illegal in New York.
But according to James, Gendron easily removed the lock from an AR-15-style rifle and was able to add high-capacity magazines. She also said the company provided step-by-step instructions on the back of its product packaging on how to remove the lock.
“We hope that by holding this manufacturer accountable and banning it from selling this device in New York state, we can offer the people of Buffalo some measure of comfort,” James, a Democrat, said at a news conference in the city.
Messages seeking comment were left for Mean Arms and its attorney.
Some victims’ relatives joined James on Wednesday and said the settlement is a step forward.
No one should be able to come into a store and, in two minutes, inflict so much damage to a community, to a family, to children,” said Pamela Pritchett, whose mother, Pearl Young, was killed. Young was a 77-year-old Sunday school teacher who ran a food pantry.
Everytown Law, which helped represent some survivors and victims’ relatives, said in a statement that Vintage Firearms has permanently closed and its owner has agreed to refrain from obtaining a federal firearms license in the future. Eric Tirschwell of Everytown Law said its clients’ settlements with Gendron’s parents were confidential.
Attorneys for the gunman’s parents and Vintage Firearms declined to comment.
“The racist mass shooting at Tops in Buffalo was an unbearable tragedy,” James said in a statement. “We lost 10 beautiful lives in a horrific act of violence and hate, and no amount of money can ever return those individuals to their families or erase the devastation the community was forced to endure. Today, justice looks like accountability, and we have ensured that this device will never be sold in our state again.”
Authorities say Gendron, who is white, targeted Tops, a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood, for the attack. The victims ranged in age from 32 to 86 and included a guard, a man shopping for a birthday cake, a grandmother of nine and the mother of a former Buffalo fire commissioner.
Gendron is serving a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty in November 2022 to multiple state charges including murder.
A trial on federal hate crime and weapons counts is expected to begin this year. Gendron has pleaded not guilty. The Justice Department said it would seek the death penalty.
The 10 victims, who ranged in age from 32 to 86, included eight customers, the store security guard and a church deacon who drove shoppers to and from the store with their groceries.
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