Public Justice represented Richard Barber in his efforts to obtain public access to the court file in Aleksich v. Remington, a personal injury case involving defects in the firing mechanism of Remington Rifle Co.’s popular 700-series rifle. The case settled in 1995 and was subsequently sealed in its entirety. Mr. Barber sought to unseal the court file to enable the public to obtain access to volumes of documents demonstrating that the defective trigger mechanism of the 700-series rifle causes the gun to discharge without a trigger pull. The documents further demonstrate that Remington has known of the dangerous defects in its rifles since the 1940s.
After granting Mr. Barber’s motion to intervene in the case in early 2012, a Montana Federal District Court ruled in September 2012 that the entire case file – except for details regarding the amount of the settlement – should be unsealed.
Staff attorneys Amy Radon and Leslie Bailey were lead counsel in the case. Bill Rossbach of Rossbach Hart, PC, in Missoula, Mont., and Richard Ramler of Ramler Law Office, P.C., in Belgrade, Mont., were co-counsel.
The Remington Model 700 and a dozen other Remington rifles can fire and maim and kill people when no one pulls the trigger. More than one hundred thousand documents have been produced in the course of litigating the trigger defect against the Remington Arms Company but most have been kept secret from the public through protective orders required by Remington in those cases. To help gun owners better understand the trigger defect and the danger it presents, Public Justice has worked with lawyers, particularly the class counsel in the Pollard v. Remington case, and with Richard Barber, a rifle expert who has worked tirelessly for many years to expose the dangers of the rifles, to collect and assemble the key documents from those cases. This website compiles and makes available those documents to explain the history of the trigger defect, the consumer complaints against Remington related to the defect, the history of testing failures, concealment of the defect, and timelines for the 700 and 710 rifle models. Power Points and Timelines provided by Timothy Monsees of Monsees & Mayer, PC, attorneys experienced representing people injured by the Remington 700 and other rifles with the defective trigger.
If you are still undecided about whether to submit a claim, please review the documents below. Every trigger replaced is a potential life saved.
The Remington Trigger Defect Documents
Public Justice worked with lawvers, particulariv class counsel in Pollard v. Hemmgton, and with rile expert Richard Barber to collect the key documents from these cases. They explain the history of the trigger defect, consumer complaints, testing failures, concealment of the defect, and timelines for the Model 700 and 710 rifles.
PowerPoints and timelines provided by Timothy Monsees of Monsees & Mayer, PC.
Model 700 Timeline
The Model 700 timeline highlights key Remington documents from 1947 on showing that Remington knew the rifle’s trigger was defective, repeatedly considered fixing it, and always decided not to. The documents cited in the timeline are below.
Model 710 Timeline
The Model 710 was a low-cost descendant of the Model 700, made from 2001 to 2006 with the same defective
trigger. lne documents cited in the timenne are Delow
Public Justice created this collection to provide public access to the Remington trigger defect documents and to prevent as many deaths and injuries from these rifles as possible. This page does not provide legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship.