BALDWIN: You're watching CNN. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Just into us today, marked a huge victory on a long legal battle for the families of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. Let me bring in Deborah Feyerick who's been (inaudible) from the beginning. What happened?</s>DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the judge today basically said that for the families who lost loved ones at Sandy Hook Elementary School, they can go ahead and begin the discovery process that the gun makers must turn over these internal documents that the families believe will prove that the gun makers aggressively marketed this AR-15 semi-automatic. And, this is key. They believe that this could be as big as what was found in the tobacco industry lawsuits which showed the tobacco industries knew that they were marketing a product that was addictive to the general population. It completely changed a company and an industry that was once untouchable. This is what the families believe can now happen because they say that marketing strategies used by the gun makers essentially targeted a violence-prone segment of the population. That they took these firearms made for the military, made for combat and put them in civilian hands without any sort of instruction, without any sort of qualification for using these. And that because of that, this really became the gun of choice for people in these massacres. And we've seen many massacres and it's no coincidence that the gun that's used is the AR-15. And that's because it is powerful, it is fast and you can get a lot of bullets off very quickly. And, you know, I spoke to some of the families. And they say, "What makes a firearm OK when it fires seven to eight bullets in seconds into a child?" And so, that's really what the argument is. But now, the gun makers were saying, "Look, we shouldn't have to even undergo to this lawsuit because federal statutes says we cannot be held criminally liable if one of our guns is used to commit a crime. The families are saying, "Oh, we're not going after that. We're going after the fact that you're deliberately marketing to people you know are not qualified to handle these firearms." So, it's a very interesting strategy.
Judge Rules Sandy Hook Families Can Continue Lawsuit.