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Mean Arms agrees to pay $1.75M to Buffalo shooting victims’ families
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A Georgia-based gun accessory company will pay $1.75 million in restitution to victims’ families, injured individuals and traumatized survivors of the 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket and permanently stop selling a controversial magazine lock in New York under a settlement announced Wednesday.
Mean LLC, commonly known as Mean Arms, agreed to the payment and injunctive relief to resolve a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James and related civil claims filed by victims’ families.
“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,” she added. “Today, justice looks like accountability, and we have ensured that this device will never be sold in our state again.”
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New York Attorney General Letitia James, Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes, and Mayor Byron Brown attend a ceremony at Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, New York, July 14, 2022. (John Normile/Getty / Getty Images)
The May 14, 2022, attack, carried out by Payton Gendron, killed 10 Black people and injured three others at a Tops Friendly Market in western New York.
Federal prosecutors said the then-18-year-old livestreamed the massacre online and targeted victims in what authorities described as a racially motivated hate crime carried out after substantial planning and premeditation.
Gendron was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2023.

Sunlight from the setting sun illuminates the Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo, New York, May 16, 2022. (Matt Burkhartt for The Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images)
James’ office alleged that Mean Arms marketed its “MA Lock” device as rendering rifles compliant with New York law, even though it could be easily removed, allowing the shooter to convert his weapon to accept high-capacity magazines.
“In January 2022, the Buffalo shooter purchased a semiautomatic rifle in New York with an MA Lock installed and a 10-round magazine. After following Mean Arms’ removal instructions, on May 14, 2022, the shooter inserted multiple 30-round detachable magazines onto his weapon,” her office said. “With a pistol grip and the high-capacity magazines, he did not have to stop to reload his weapon, and when he did reload, he could do so quickly.”
Under the settlement, the company must cease all sales of the MA Lock in New York, “remove any statements that claim the MA Lock is legal in New York, state on all packaging that the MA Lock cannot be sold or resold in New York, and notify all businesses currently selling the MA Lock that the product is not to be sold or resold to individuals and/or businesses in New York.”
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Police and FBI agents continue their investigation at Tops market in Buffalo, New York, May 15, 2022. (Scott Olson/Getty / Getty Images)
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In a press release from James’ office, Andrew Debbins, an attorney who represents several of the victims’ families, said: “No amount of money can compensate the victims of May 14 for the unspeakable horrors of that day, but this settlement is a victory in our continuing fight against hate and all who enable it.”
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“We have the best of relations. You would have observed that through the last year, President Donald Trump has always had the best of things to say about India as a country, and about Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi. We have fantastic relations with our counterparts there,” he said.
Addressing the Raisina Dialogue 2026, Goyal also said that “ultimately, a trade deal is about preference over your competition”.
“Even within your family, sometimes you can have one or two misunderstandings,” he said. “It’s a part of the course. I think it’s a very, very powerful relationship that the US and India share. And we got the best deal amongst all the nations with whom we compete,” said Goyal when asked about India’s trade ties with the US.
He added that both countries are strategic partners and the largest democracies in the world.
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