Lawmakers question CEOs of gun manufacturers in wake of mass shootings
A committee released new findings showing that five major gun manufacturers made more than $1 billion from assault rifle sales in the last decade.
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A committee released new findings showing that five major gun manufacturers made more than $1 billion from assault rifle sales in the last decade.
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Leading gun manufacturing executives testified Wednesday before a House panel investigating the role of the firearms industry in the nation's high rates of gun violence, maintaining under sharp questioning from Democrats that American citizens -- not firearms -- cause mass shootings. The hearing, helmed by House Oversight
Mark P. Smith of Smith & Wesson failed to appear before the U.S. House Oversight & Reform Committee, as he had been requested to do.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) asked Sturm, Ruger, & Co. to pledge not to sell ammunition that pierces body armor, to which Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy responded that Ruger does not sell ammunition.
Members of "The Squad" accused firearms manufacturers of using white supremacy in the marketing of firearms Wednesday.