{"id":83919,"date":"2022-07-28T01:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83919"},"modified":"2022-07-28T01:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T06:37:34","slug":"83919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=83919","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats shocked… Shocked! To learn that gun companies charge money for firearms<\/a><\/p>\n

Today the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held the first in a series of hearings designed to support efforts to enact new gun control laws. Invited to testify at the hearing were the CEOs of a number of prominent firearms manufacturing companies, including Daniel Defense, Smith & Wesson, Sig Sauer and others.<\/p>\n

If you find yourself wondering what these CEOs have to do with this ongoing process, you\u2019re not alone, but most of them agreed to show up. Ahead of the hearing, the committee\u00a0released a lengthy statement<\/a>\u00a0penned by Democratic Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney. In it, she indicated that they would be releasing their findings from an \u201cinvestigation\u201d into the sales reports of the various companies as if it was really all that difficult to find their sales records.<\/p>\n

Maloney announced what she clearly seemed to think was a shocking statistic. The combined companies racked up more than one billion dollars in sales of certain styles of semiautomatic long rifles that Democrats refer to as \u201cassault weapons.\u201d Oh, and they advertise their products. You\u2019re shocked, I know. Here are a couple of excerpts from Maloney\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow much are the lives of America\u2019s children, teachers, parents, and families worth to gun manufacturers? My Committee\u2019s investigation has revealed that the country\u2019s major gun manufacturers have collected more than $1 billion in revenue from selling military-style assault weapons to civilians.<\/p>\n

These companies are selling the weapon of choice for mass murderers who terrorize young children at school, hunt down worshippers at churches and synagogues, and slaughter families on the Fourth of July. In short, the gun industry is profiting off the blood of innocent Americans.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Committee has found that the business practices of these gun manufacturers are deeply disturbing, exploitative, and reckless. These companies use aggressive marketing tactics to target young people\u2014especially young men\u2014and some even evoke symbols of white supremacy. Yet we found that none of these companies bothers to keep track of the death and destruction caused by their products.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maloney is obviously just trying to gin up anger against the firearms industry in hopes of forcing a vote on more gun control legislation. But let\u2019s take a moment and look at the three major complaints she raises in the letter. One can only hope that she doesn\u2019t come across this article and read it because I would hate to see her become even more traumatized than she clearly already is.<\/p>\n

First, she notes that the various firearms companies have \u201ccollected\u201d more than one billion dollars selling these rifles. (I love the use of the word \u201ccollected\u201d to create some sort of sinister connotation.) To her credit, Maloney is absolutely correct. These companies do charge money for their products. The reason they \u201ccollect\u201d so much for these various \u201cBushmaster\u201d style rifles is that they are some of the most popular models in the country. But while the mass shootings draw a lot of media attention, it\u2019s also worthwhile to point out to the congresswoman that the FBI has told us year after year after year that long rifles of any type are the least common type of firearms used in the commission of crimes, including murder. More people are killed on average every year by murderers using blunt objects, knives, or even their bare hands. Moving on.<\/p>\n

She complains about the advertising themes that the firearms manufacturers employ when trying to boost sales. Again, she is correct. These companies produce advertisements to attract customers. In not one single ad we\u2019ve ever seen have any of them suggested that these products should be used to kill human beings, though it\u2019s clear that such a thing might happen if you are forced to defend yourself and\/or your family from a home intruder. They are most commonly used for hunting or target shooting. This is another nonsensical \u201caccusation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her final complaint is that none of the gun companies are \u201cbothering\u201d to keep track of the number of people killed by people using these products. Really? How shocking. You\u2019re telling us that civilian manufacturers of firearms are not in the business of collecting crime data from law enforcement agencies? Of course, if they did \u201cbother\u201d to do that, assuming they could legally extract the information from law enforcement agencies all around the country, they would discover that the number is minuscule compared to deaths caused by handguns, knives, and baseball bats, as I mentioned above. Perhaps they should start including that<\/em>\u00a0data in their advertising.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of admirable that these CEOs were willing to travel to Washington and sit through all of this nonsense with a straight face. The Democrats in Congress are once again putting on yet another circus to try to distract the country from the disastrous state of the country at the moment and the failures of their own policies. But it\u2019s a midterm election year so we probably should have expected this.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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