{"id":83888,"date":"2022-07-27T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83888"},"modified":"2022-07-27T10:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:31:55","slug":"83888","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83888","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

House Democrats target firearms industry in Oversight hearing<\/a><\/p>\n

Democrats are once again making gun control their topic of the day in the House of Representatives today. Not only is Rep. David Cicillini\u2019s bill to ban so-called assault weapons scheduled for a vote in the House Rules Committee (along with legislation that would repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act), the House Oversight Committee is holding a hearing on \u201cgun violence\u201d, with a focus on how the firearms industry markets its products.<\/p>\n

The hearing, which kicks off at 10 a.m. ET will feature the CEOs of several major gun manufacturers, as well as\u00a0the anti-gun grandstanding<\/a>\u00a0from politicians like Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, who chairs the committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith more than 300 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, and gun violence now the leading cause of death of children in America, it is clear that we are in a public health epidemic,\u201d said Chairwoman Maloney. \u201cOur hearing will examine the role of gun manufacturers in flooding our communities with weapons of war and fueling America\u2019s gun violence crisis. It is long past time for the gun industry to be held accountable for the carnage they enable and profit from.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps not coincidentally, Maloney and Rep. Jerry Nadler (who chairs the Judiciary Committee that approved the \u201cassault weapons\u201d ban bill last week) are fighting for the same congressional seat thanks to New York\u2019s redistricting map. Now the two Democrats can each boast of going after gun makers while they\u2019re campaigning in the deep blue environs of NY-12.<\/p>\n

As Maloney\u2019s diatribe indicates, Democrats on the Oversight Committee will be trying to advance the narrative that the firearms industry has intentionally fueled violence through its marketing and advertising. We\u2019ve seen some of their allies set the scene for today\u2019s hearing, including former Kimber executive-turned-gun control activist Ryan Busse, who recently\u00a0penned a piece<\/a>\u00a0at the Atlantic claiming that up until the mid 2000s, the firearms industry\u2019s marketing was fine and dandy, but after the expiration of the AWB of 1994, the industry nefariously pivoted towards a more tactical mindset instead of its traditional focus on hunting and self-defense.<\/p>\n

By 2016, Daniel Defense marketing was working so well that it won a coveted spot on the cover of\u00a0Popular Mechanics\u00a0magazine.\u00a0The company\u2019s press release\u00a0proclaimed that the placement of its rifle in the \u201cTough Guys\u201d issue was a \u201cmajor accomplishment\u201d because it would help Daniel Defense reach a \u201cmore mainstream audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many other firearms companies, Daniel Defense also sought placement of its products in movies and video games. This Facebook post from 2019 alerts followers to the appearance of one of its DDM4 V7 rifles in the new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare game. The DDM4 V7 was\u00a0used by the 18-year-old gamer turned shooter in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, this is the kind of \u201cevidence\u201d that will be offered up at today\u2019s show hearing to try to prove that the firearms industry is intentionally targeting cowardly killers like the 18-year old in Uvalde.<\/p>\n

Marty Daniels of Daniel Defense is one of the CEOs invited to testify at the Oversight hearing, along with Smith & Wesson\u2019s Mark Smith and Ruger\u2019s Christopher Killoy. Busse himself will also be testifying at the hearing at the invitation of Democrats on the panel, along with Gun Owners of America\u2019s Antonia Okafor and Kelly Sampson of the gun control group Brady. We\u2019ll have more updates on the hearing later today, but I\u2019m not expecting much to come out of this other than anti-gun Democrats like Maloney preening for the cameras and scapegoating the firearms industry for the actions of criminals and deranged killers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Democrats target firearms industry in Oversight hearing Democrats are once again making gun control their topic of the day in the House of Representatives today. Not only is Rep. David Cicillini\u2019s bill to ban so-called assault weapons scheduled for a vote in the House Rules Committee (along with legislation that would repeal the Protection … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83889,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83888\/revisions\/83889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}