At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.

Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry’s chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners’ details into what would become a massive database.

  • Flying Squid
    5•4 months ago

    Now is not the time to talk about gun privacy control.

    • @auzy
      1•4 months ago

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          • @RaoulDookEnglish
            7•4 months ago

            The facts reported by the Jan 6th committee made it clear that it was a premeditated coup attempt.

          • Flying Squid
            2•4 months ago

            I have no idea what you mean by “DJT and his ilk.” None of them were breaking into congress. The people that were wanted to install Trump as president and do it by executing Mike Pence. They made that very clear. So yes, that was a coup attempt. I’m not sure why you think Trump had to be directly involved to make it a coup attempt.

              • Flying Squid
                0•4 months ago

                I thought your point is it wasn’t a coup attempt.

                Your point seems to keep changing.

                You also seem to think I want to ban guns for some reason. I don’t know why because I never said I did.