(27 Jul 2022)
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1. STILL IMAGE: AR-15-style rifles are on display at Burbank Ammo & Guns
ANNOTATION: Gun manufacturers have made more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade.
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Carolyn Maloney, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman:
"This is an ultra deadly weapon engineered to kill enemy soldiers on the battlefield. Yet the gun industry has flooded our neighborhoods, our schools and even our churches and synagogues with these deadly weapons and has gotten rich doing it."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Carolyn Maloney, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman:
"Our investigation shows that five major gun manufacturers collected a total of more than $1,000,000,000 from the sale of assault rifles over the last decade."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Carolyn Maloney, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman:
"The gun manufacturers used dangerous marketing tactics to sell assault weapons to the public. That includes marketing to children, preying on young men's insecurities, and even appealing to violent white supremacists."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. James Comer, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member:
"It's become clear that the two parties in Washington have very different solutions of putting an end to the violent crime wave across the nation. Republicans want to target criminals. Democrats want to target lawful gun owners and take away their guns."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Killoy,Sturm, Ruger & Company President and CEO:
"You ask what the industry has done and what our company has done and can do. One of the things that you referenced with this, the Sutherland Springs situation, in that case, the evil person who perpetrated those crimes and committed those murders was allowed to buy a firearm that frankly, he should not have been allowed to do."
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Carolyn Maloney, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman:
"Will you accept personal responsibility for your company's role in this tragedy and apologize to the families of Uvalde?"
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Marty Daniel, Daniel Defense CEO:
"These acts or committed by murderers. The murderers are responsible."
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Carolyn Maloney, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman:
"I hope the American people are paying attention today. It is clear the gun makers are not going to change unless Congress forces them to finally put people over profits."
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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Jody Hice, (R) Georgia:
"My colleagues seem to forget that the American people have a right to own guns. It's a constitutional right to defend themselves."
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STORYLINE:
Gun manufacturers have made more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style guns over the past decade, and for two companies those revenues have tripled over the past three years, according to a House investigation unveiled Wednesday.
Those profits have come as the weapons have been used in mass shootings that have horrified the nation, including one that left 10 people dead at a grocery store in Buffalo and another where 19 children were shot to death in Uvalde, Texas.
Those guns are often marketed to young men as a way to prove their masculinity, the Committee on Oversight and Reform said.
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