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Gun Industry

This Is What Happens When The Gun Industry Sees Kids As Customers

The Huffington Post | Christina Wilkie & Nick Wing | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics

The percentage of American households that reported owning guns dropped more than 40 percent between 1977 and 2010, according to surveys by the Univer...

NRA Meets in Houston to Promote Gun Industry's 'Latest and Greatest Products'

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics
Josh Sugarmann

While the NRA promises that the annual convention will draw more than 70,000 attendees, left unstated is the fact the vast majority of these participants aren't there to attend the organization's annual "meeting of members" but to see the products of the organization's gun industry patrons.

The Political Suicide of Kelly Ayotte

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics
Hoyt Hilsman

Senator Kelly Ayotte this week became the poster child for callousness in her confrontation with Erica Lafferty, the daughter of the slain principal of Sandy Hook.

John Celock

Gun Battle Reignites Border War

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics

The Republican-controlled Missouri House of Representatives advanced two more pro-gun measures this week in an effort to compete with neighboring Kans...

Gunmaker Reports Huge Profit Growth

AP | Posted 04.29.2013 | Business

SOUTHPORT, Conn. (AP) — Gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co.'s net income jumped 53 percent as gun sales surged. Its stock rose in late trading after it anno...

Lost in Boston's Carnage...

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.20.2013 | Politics
Rick Horowitz

The Senate fails the nation. ...

15 Things The Gun Industry Doesn't Want You To Know

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.18.2013 | Business

The National Rifle Association certainly wasn’t shy about its opposition to the Senate's failed deal to expand gun background checks. But there are ...

States Lure Gunmakers With Less Restrictive Laws

AP | By MORGAN TRUE and BECKY BOHRER | Posted 03.29.2013 | Business

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Firearms manufacturers upset over newly restrictive gun laws and proposals in their home states are getting a message from othe...

GOP Blocks Obama Nominee Amid Opposition From Gun Industry

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the confirmation of federal appeals court nominee Caitlin Halligan for the second time, denying ...

Gun Maker Reports Huge Earnings

AP | Posted 05.05.2013 | Business

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Smith & Wesson Holding Corp.'s earnings more than tripled in the firearms maker's latest quarter as consumers scrambled to...

The NRA's Flip-Flop on Machine Guns

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 04.24.2013 | Politics
Josh Sugarmann

According to National Rifle Association President David Keene, fully automatic weapons should be illegal. As far as I know, this is actually news.

LaPierre Reveals True Purpose Behind Assault Weapons

Josh Horwitz | Posted 04.06.2013 | Politics
Josh Horwitz

Once average Americans understand the interplay between the militarization of civilian weaponry and the gun lobby's devotion to insurrectionist rhetoric, the gig is up for Wayne & Co.

What the NRA and My Son Have in Common

Kim Siegal | Posted 04.02.2013 | Parents
Kim Siegal

To quote Wayne LaPierre, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." You know who else thinks of the world this way, where the bad guys need to be beaten and the good guys save the day? My 4-year-old son.

Beyond Gun Control: Regulating Virtual Violence and Video Games

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 04.02.2013 | Politics
Sanjay Sanghoee

Worthwhile as gun control is, America also needs to address violence from the other side -- the side of our culture.

Gun Industry Executive Helps Pick NRA Leaders: Report

Ben Hallman | Posted 03.18.2013 | Business
Ben Hallman

Questions about who controls the NRA's agenda have increased over the past month in the wake of the Newtown shootings as the organization has staked out a hardline stance considered out-of-step with many the views of many gun owners.

Gun Enthusiasts Flock To Las Vegas Amid Heated Debate

AP | KEN RITTER | Posted 03.17.2013 | Politics

LAS VEGAS — A trade show expected to draw tens of thousands of gun enthusiasts and manufacturers opened Tuesday on the Las Vegas Strip with the ...

Newtown-Based Gun Industry Trade Association Begins Celebration of Guns This Week in Vegas

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 03.16.2013 | Politics
Josh Sugarmann

While America continues to grieve over the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School and begins looking for answers, for Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry's multi-million dollar trade association, it's back to business as usual.

Peter H. Stone

How The NRA Became The Gun Industry Lobby

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter H. Stone | Posted 01.11.2013 | Politics

Throughout its 142-year history, the National Rifle Association has portrayed itself as an advocate for the individual gun owner’s Second Amendment ...

Gunmaker Claims Bank Of America Froze Its Accounts

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.08.2013 | Business

An American gunmaker says Bank of America is holding his money hostage. Joe Sirochman, owner of American Spirit Arms, recently claimed in a Faceb...

Obama's Inadvertent New Stimulus

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.20.2012 | Business

According to some, President Obama's speech Wednesday wasn't just a call to re-examine gun control laws, it was the announcement of a new stimulus pac...

Oil, Guns and Moral Outrage

Carol Pierson Holding | Posted 02.19.2013 | Impact
Carol Pierson Holding

At least sixty years of investors boycotting the gun trade has yielded zero result. In fact, SRI activism works best when rewarding companies that care about being good, whose products sustain life rather than take it.

8 Executives Profiting Off Of Gun Sales

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.18.2012 | Business

There are nearly as many guns in the U.S. as there are people, and that is no accident. The gun industry is under the spotlight after Adam Lanza, 2...

Alice Hines

Texas Gun Store Owner Offers Teachers Discount After Newtown Shooting

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 12.18.2012 | Business

One outspoken Texas gun store owner is offering local teachers a 10 percent discount to attend his concealed carry handgun classes in light of the New...

Catherine New

Anti-Gun Groups See Huge Spike In Donations After School Shooting

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 12.14.2012 | Impact

Within hours of the mass shooting that killed more than two dozen people in Connecticut on Friday, social media channels surged with grief and heartfe...

The Gun Industry Just Had A Banner Year

Posted 12.18.2012 | Business

The gun business in the United States is thriving and the tragic events on Friday in Newtown, Conn. may likely do little to quell Americans' spending ...