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Gun manufacturers are going to be called to account by House Democrats [1]

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Date: 2022-07-08

Jordan Costa, Giffords community violence initiative project manager, walks through a field of flowers representing deaths from gun violence at the Giffords Gun Violence Memorial in front of the Washington Monument on June 7, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

House Democrats are going to haul gun manufacturers in front of the Oversight Committee later this month, a continuation of their efforts to investigate and expose the proliferation of guns and gun violence following the spate of mass shootings in recent weeks. That includes the more than 220 people shot and killed just over the 4th of July weekend.

Chairperson Carolyn Maloney requested the CEOs of three major gun manufacturers—Marty Daniel, the CEO of Daniel Defense, Mark Smith, the president and CEO of Smith & Wesson Brands, and Christopher Killoy, the president and CEO of Sturm, Ruger & Co.—appear to discuss the companies’ profits from weapons based on AR-15-style guns, annual spending on advertising and marketing of these rifles, and their annual spending on federal and state lobbying, as well as their funding of the National Rifle Association.

Maloney is looking at evidence like this ad, which Smith & Wesson uses to try to get parents to arm their small children. “Lookout squirrels,” it proclaims, congratulating this child for “graduating” from a BB gun to a lethal weapon. It is helpfully translated into Spanish, as well.

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