Gun-rights groups are urging the Supreme Court to throw out a lawsuit aiming to hold a group of gunmakers liable for advertisements they made about their firearms that victims of a crime claim inspired a shooter.

The high court has been petitioned to hear Daniel Defense v. Lowy, a case filed by victims of an April 2022 shooting in the District of Columbia against gunmakers over advertisements that the victims say “deceptively and unfairly marketed” their firearms “to appeal to the impulsive, risk-taking tendencies of civilian adolescent and post-adolescent males.” The victims’ lawsuit, filed in federal court in Virginia, specifically pointed to the “warrior mentality” depicted in many of the advertisements, which it claims directly inspired the shooter. A federal district judge initially tossed the lawsuit, but a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit revived it, leading gun manufacturers and their allies to the Supreme Court to ask the justices to throw out the case for good.