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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 12:36 PM Apr 2016

Hillary has been a friend of the gun and ammo industries

Winchester rifle ammo with bullets designed to fragment and spread in the target’s body


Big Ammo: Clinton is raising money from gunpowder lobbyists and investors

At the Democratic debate on 14 April 2016, Hillary Clinton said that “we need a president who will stand up against the gun lobby.” However Secretary of State Clinton effectively stood with the gun lobby as she approved millions in revenue for two huge gunpowder mills. Since then she has received payments from numerous ammunition industry stakeholders, including over $160,000 in contributions from her campaign chair’s brother, ammo lobbyist Anthony Podesta.

While Clinton has been connected to the gunmakers that make the assault rifles used in American massacres and an NRA lobbyist, less attention has been paid to her ties to ammunition manufacturers that also play a central role in the gun lobby. In the financial years ending in 2010 and 2011, Secretary Clinton approved sales of ammunition worth upwards of $345 million. The approvals included those for a gunpowder giant that Clinton is especially close to.

Clinton approved sales for NRA-allied ammunition suppliers. Pentagon reports show that in the two years ending June 2011, Clinton approved more than $144 million in gun and ammunition sales for General Dynamics (GD) as well as $34 million in ammunition sales for GD’s gunpowder client, Winchester. Though GD does not itself sell ammunition directly to the retail market, their St Mark’s Powder mill is a major wholesale supplier of gunpowder for domestic commercial ammo brands like Challenger, Samson, Ramshot, Blazer, Hodgdon and Winchester. General Dynamics gunpowders include formulation 748, “the powder of choice for 223 Remington ammunition.” Remington 223 ammunition is used in AR-15 assault rifles, the type of guns that were used in both the Sandy Hook and San Bernardino massacres. Winchester sells ammunition to American consumers, and is a strong supporter of the gun lobby. Winchester has close ties with the National Rifle Association specifically, co-sponsoring a shooting education program with the NRA.







Clinton was paid by the ammo companies’ owners. In addition to receiving contributions from a gunpowder lobbyist, Clinton received a variety of payments from the shareholders of gunpowder and ammunition companies. Institutional investors The Vanguard Group and the BlackRock fund hold nearly 6% and nearly 3% of General Dynamics shares respectively. Vanguard and BlackRock also hold over 7% and 6% of shares respectively in the parent company of Winchester. Vanguard has paid Clinton $400,000 in speaking fees, while BlackRock has contributed $22,060 to Clinton’s campaigns since 1999

Clinton’s Foundation took donations from ammo buyers. Clinton is also connected to the ammunition sales through her friends and donors. Clinton-approved GD customers included the regime of Clinton’s family friend, dictator Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, who bought $11 million of GD ammo in the year leading up to the Arab Spring democracy protests. Clinton benefactor the United Arab Emirates bought $44 million of GD grenades and accessories after donating upwards of $1 million to her Foundation.


Clinton with her Foundation donor and ammunition customer HH Sheikh Mohammed of the UAE


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Hillary has been a friend of the gun and ammo industries (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Apr 2016 OP
So Hillary is responsible for selling weapons to the middle east? MattP Apr 2016 #1
You left out Kevin Bacon MattP Apr 2016 #2
Really funny stuff huh? Yeah when you take the cash and approve the sales that's responsible. Cheese Sandwich Apr 2016 #3
You're links are bs we have been selling arms to them for MattP Apr 2016 #4
She's getting paid off to grease the wheels. To act like she's not part of it just wow Cheese Sandwich Apr 2016 #5
Hillary sold more weapons to ME nations than Bush, and she sold to watch list nations amborin Apr 2016 #9
Low Blow! Plenty of Grammatical F UPS on DU! CorporatistNation Apr 2016 #16
selling unprecedently huge quatities of deadly weapons to repressive rights violating regimes is OK? amborin Apr 2016 #7
50 degrees of separation. Buzz Clik Apr 2016 #6
Why are you guys not troubled by government officials being paid by all these powerful interests Cheese Sandwich Apr 2016 #8
20,968,547 NCIS back-ground checks for gun sales in 2014. jmg257 Apr 2016 #10
Since when did Democrats become Pro War? Pro Guns, Pro oppressive regimes? I guess there is a insta8er Apr 2016 #11
TBH they were always like that Cheese Sandwich Apr 2016 #14
But..but..the Saudis, et al, are just gun collectors and their purchases are just for display. Tierra_y_Libertad Apr 2016 #12
why, they even have Eddie the Eagle in the region! MisterP Apr 2016 #13
More repulsive by the day Doctor_J Apr 2016 #15

MattP

(3,304 posts)
4. You're links are bs we have been selling arms to them for
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 01:02 PM
Apr 2016

decades to act like she made some wild choice is ridiculous and you're chart is 6 degrees of Hillary and the military sale has nothing to do with domestic ammo

amborin

(16,631 posts)
9. Hillary sold more weapons to ME nations than Bush, and she sold to watch list nations
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 01:31 PM
Apr 2016

by the way, grammar 101: "you're" means "you are"

the possessive pronoun you should have used is "your"

amborin

(16,631 posts)
7. selling unprecedently huge quatities of deadly weapons to repressive rights violating regimes is OK?
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 01:28 PM
Apr 2016

(regimes that were listed as human rights violating? and which paid huge donations to the Clinton Foundation)

 

Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts)
8. Why are you guys not troubled by government officials being paid by all these powerful interests
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 01:28 PM
Apr 2016

and then helping them out in government. Seems awful

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
10. 20,968,547 NCIS back-ground checks for gun sales in 2014.
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 02:17 PM
Apr 2016

Estimated 1/3 of Americans own at least 1 gun.

In the Northeast, gun ownership rates ranged from 5.8 percent in Rhode Island to 28.8 percent in Vermont.
In the Midwest, rates ranged from 19.6 percent in Ohio to 47.9 percent in North Dakota. In the South and mid-Atlantic, rates ranged from 5.2 percent in Delaware to 57.9 percent in Arkansas.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/one-three-americans-own-guns-culture-factor-study-finds-n384031


Winchester has been in business for 150 years.
Remington 200 years.
Colt 180 years, marketing the AR for 50 years.


Being a friend of Gun/Ammo manufacturers AND gun owners isn't such a bad idea.





 

insta8er

(960 posts)
11. Since when did Democrats become Pro War? Pro Guns, Pro oppressive regimes? I guess there is a
Sat Apr 23, 2016, 02:20 PM
Apr 2016

Justification made for when it comes to the anointed one. Or when justification is not possible we just ignore the cold hard truth.

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