Survivors and families of victims from the 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, have filed a negligence lawsuit against the U.S. government . The lawsuit, filed on behalf of over 100 individuals, alleges that the U.S. Army failed to prevent Robert Card, an Army reservist, from carrying out the attack that killed 18 people and injured many others. The plaintiffs claim that the Army was aware of Card's deteriorating mental health and access to firearms but did not take necessary actions to intervene.

According to the lawsuit, the Army had promised to remove Card's firearms and address his mental health issues but failed to do so. The suit states, "The Army knew that the combination of mental health deterioration, blast-induced brain injury, access to weapons, and paranoid delusions re

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