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
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    12 months ago

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

    • DominusOfMegadeus
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      52 months 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
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        42 months ago

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

          • @idiomaddict
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            42 months ago

            Well no, you meant what you meant! I just didn’t realize what you were trying to say, it happens :)