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.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    14·
    28 days ago

    Something tells me gun nuts will waive away the violation of privacy that gun companies sharing gun purchasing into with government officials represents.

      • ThermonuclearCactusEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        Because the gun nuts usually know enough about how firearms work to just make their own guns.

        • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          28 days ago

          Either they know enough to build their own or enough to restore inoperable ones. But yeah a lot of them unless they are professionally involved with the manufacturers arent quite about their hatred.