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AR-15 style guns sold as a sign of manhood as shootings rise
The Associated Press ^
| July 27, 2022
| By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Posted on 07/27/2022 1:41:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun makers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade, at times marketing them as a way for young men to prove their masculinity, even as the number of mass shootings increases, according to a House investigation unveiled Wednesday.
The weapons have been used in massacres that have horrified the nation, including one that left 10 people dead at a grocery store in Buffalo and another where 19 children and two teachers were shot to death in Uvalde, Texas.
The Committee on Oversight and Reform said some ads mimic popular first-person shooter video games or tout the weapons’ military pedigree while others claim the guns will put buyers “at the top of the testosterone food chain.”
Those sales tactics are “deeply disturbing, exploitative and reckless,” said Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York. “In short, the gun industry is profiting off the blood of innocent Americans.”
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; 5pt56; ar15; associatedpress; banglist; chat; fakenews; lindsaywhitehurst; newsforumabuse; pennsylvania; pt223
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Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’d rather have the AR15 as a sign of manhood than the rainbow as a sign of faghood.
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:43:17 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
In just how many massacres has the AR15 been used?
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:44:34 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So, perhaps a million sold over ten years...
and less than a hundred used in mass shootings?
The problem isn’t the weapon...
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:44:43 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yeah because NO womxn own AR-15s. Despicable assclowns.
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:44:50 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Lindsay, unless you have a penis...you have no right to talk about manhood.
Hmmm...
To: Oldeconomybuyer
sign of manhood got nothing to do with it......
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:46:06 PM PDT
by
cranked
To: tet68
If you blame the tool, you just might be a tool.
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:46:32 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
How much do they make selling pink guns for women and fags?
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:46:47 PM PDT
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
That’s not Lindsay. That’s Larry.
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:47:19 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
What the hell? Who thinks that way other than Travis Bickle’s reflection and insecure posers?
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:47:36 PM PDT
by
Born in 1950
(Anti left, nothing else.)
To: BookmanTheJanitor
That person looks as though they may HAVE a penis....
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:47:48 PM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Dems are spouting BS. America has seen lawless assaults on innocent people, looting and arson. We have seen groups march in front of the homes of government officials and wonder when they will attack us in mass with powerful weapons to shoot down us and our families to fund their drug habits. We need good, efficient guns to defend us against the threats the Dems have encouraged to happen.
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:48:01 PM PDT
by
jonrick46
(Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
To: Jamestown1630
“In just how many massacres has the AR15 been used?”
Libtard: “including movies?”
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:48:33 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
To: All
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:49:22 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(lazy FReepers don't have a homepage.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The weapons have been used in massacres that have horrified the nation, including one that left 10 people dead at a grocery store in Buffalo and another where 19 children and two teachers were shot to death in Uvalde, Texas.Chicago loses 10 to 20 EVERY WEEKEND in mass shootings. Why don't these "horrify the nation"? Could it be that black lives really don't matter that much?
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posted on
07/27/2022 1:49:38 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“...see whether we in our day and generation may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Usual far left propaganda from the Associalist Press? Yup.
AR 15 will get you a hard member? Since when?
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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