https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/house-oversight-panel-to-probe-gun-makers-after-texas-shooting/Quote:
Three days after 19 children and two adults were murdered by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform announced it had asked five gun manufacturers for data about the production and sale of semi-automatic weapons.
Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) issued letters to Bushmaster Firearms Industries, Daniel Defense, Sig Sauer, Smith & Wesson Brands, and Strum, Ruger & Company on Friday, accusing them of "aggressively" marketing assault weapons to the general public, despite "strong public support for an assault-weapon ban."
"I am deeply concerned that gun manufacturers continue to profit from the sale of weapons of war, including the AR-15- style assault rifle that a white supremacist used to murder ten people last week in Buffalo, New York, and the AR-15-style assault rifle that was reportedly used this week in the massacre of at least 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas," Maloney wrote.
"Despite decades of rising gun deaths and mass murderers using assault weapons, your company has continued to market assault weapons to civilians, reaping a profit from the deaths of innocent Americans."
Specifically, the panel wants the manufacturers to reveal their "annual gross revenue and profit" from semi-automatic rifle sales; the number of semi-automatic weapons sold to distributors, retailers, consumers and government agencies; and the amount the companies have spent on advertising and marketing semi-automatic rifles all within the past decade.
Democrats would like nothing more than to remove the federal protection from gun manufacturers so they can be sued out of existence. Then they don't even need to ban anything. No one will be able to buy a gun.