2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary has been a friend of the gun and ammo industries
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 chairs 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 GDs gunpowder client, Winchester. Though GD does not itself sell ammunition directly to the retail market, their St Marks 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.
Clintons 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 Clintons 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.
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MattP
(3,304 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)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
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)by the way, grammar 101: "you're" means "you are"
the possessive pronoun you should have used is "your"
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)Point is Hillary IS A BIG FUCKING HYPOCRITE!
amborin
(16,631 posts)(regimes that were listed as human rights violating? and which paid huge donations to the Clinton Foundation)
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Fun game.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)and then helping them out in government. Seems awful
jmg257
(11,996 posts)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)Justification made for when it comes to the anointed one. Or when justification is not possible we just ignore the cold hard truth.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I honestly don't know why she calls herself a democrat