The Latest: Missouri gun shop settles in liability case

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Latest on a wrongful death case settlement with a pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father (all times local):

12:40 p.m.

A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father has settled for $2.2 million in a wrongful death case.

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced the settlement Tuesday after a hearing.

Wellington resident Janet Delana says she asked Odesa Gun & Pawn in 2012 not to sell a firearm to her schizophrenic daughter.

Her daughter later bought a gun from the store, fatally shot her father and attempted suicide.

Brady Center lawyer Jonathan Lowy says the settlement is the largest since a 2005 federal law shielding gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products.

Pawn shop lawyers unsuccessfully argued to the Missouri Supreme Court that the federal law blocks such lawsuits.

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9:44 a.m.

A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father is settling in a wrongful death case.

A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Lexington.

Wellington resident Janet Delana says she asked Odesa Gun & Pawn in June 2012 not to sell a firearm to her schizophrenic daughter, Colby Sue Weathers.

Weathers bought a gun from the store two days later. Within hours, Weathers fatally shot her father and attempted suicide.

Lawyers for the pawn shop unsuccessfully argued to the Missouri Supreme Court that a federal law blocks such lawsuits.

Delana’s lawyer from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence says the settlement is set to be the largest against gun stores since the 2005 federal law.