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.

For years, America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives.

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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf

    • @idiomaddict
      1•1 hour ago

      I think you mean immoral. Amoral is not related to morals, like choosing what color socks to wear at home.

      • DominusOfMegadeus
        2•35 minutes ago

        I’m sorry to say your thought is incorrect. I was using this definition: amoral - having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong.

        To expand on this, I was implying that morality is simply not a factor in their actions.

        https://www.dictionary.com/browse/amoral

        • @idiomaddict
          1•4 minutes ago

          That’s the definition I’m going off of as well!

    • @ultranautOP
      31•7 hours ago

      It is pretty ironic the entire time the gun industry was fueling paranoia about the government creating a database of all the gun owners they themselves were secretly creating a database of all the gun owners.

      • Flying Squid
        4•5 hours ago

        And it was from people sending in warranty cards. They put themselves on the list of gun owners they were terrified of existing.