Assault Weapons Makers Pulled In Over $1 Billion as Violence Surged, Report Says

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Assault Weapons Makers Pulled In Over $1 Billion as Violence Surged, Report Says

A House panel found that the companies have thrived in the past decade by selling and marketing military-grade weapons to civilians, specifically young men.
A gun store in Austin, Texas. A congressional report accused gun manufacturers of marketing their weapons to young men as a way to “prove their manliness.”
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Assault Weapons Makers Pulled In Over $1 Billion as Violence Surged, Report Says
A House panel found that the companies have thrived in the past decade by selling and marketing military-grade weapons to civilians, specifically young men.
10:50 AM · Jul 27, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/us/politics/assault-weapons-revenue.html

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WASHINGTON — The leading manufacturers of assault rifles used to perpetrate the deadliest mass shootings in the United States have collected more than $1 billion in revenue over the past decade as gun violence across the country has surged, according to a House investigation set to be presented on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

The findings, released before a congressional hearing on Wednesday on the marketing of assault rifles, indicate that the gun industry has thrived by selling and marketing military-grade weapons to civilians, specifically targeting and playing to the insecurities of young men, while some have made thinly veiled references to white supremacist groups.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform opened an investigation into the gun manufacturing industry in May after the gun massacre in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers and a racially motivated mass shooting in a Buffalo supermarket that killed 10 people.

The panel requested that the country’s top five gun manufacturers share information on their sales and marketing strategies, as well as any efforts they make to track safety data related to their products.

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[mopinko]

1. we need a windfall profits tax in.general.

but these fuckers....

[maxsolomon]

2. surged from historic lows.

but Americans have no other answers to our problems but guns.

when all you have is a hammer...