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18 Apr, 6 tweets, 4 min read
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Fight The #GunViolenceLobby /1

100 shooting deaths a day in America bring huge profits to firearms manufacturers and gun sellers.
They glorify gun violence for sales.
They block sane gun regulation.
Fight The #GunViolenceLobby /2

16-year-old arrested for gun possession in Boston
Colt supplies gun sellers with pistols made attractive to boys snd men.

bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/11/…
Fight The #GunViolenceLobby /3

The “Black Mamba”
Sig Sauer MCX – the weapon that caused 100+ causalities in Orlando massacre

Easily hidden in a backpack
“a firearm..as quiet as an MP5, as deadly as an AK-47 &more modular than anything ever designed”

ir-ia.com/news/sig-sauer…
Fight The #GunViolenceLobby /4

Why the AR-15 keeps appearing at America's deadliest mass shootings

The NRA calls the AR-15–the semi-automatic, the "most popular rifle in America" and estimates Americans own more than 8 million of them. 

usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
Fight The #GunViolenceLobby /5

Glock semiautomatic pistol links recent mass shootings

..Jared Loughner..killed 6 people &wounded 13 others,including Rep. Giffords,w/a 9mm Glock 19.
Seung Hui Cho used a Glock 19 to kill 32 people &wound 17 at VA Tech

washingtonpost.com/national/glock…
Fight The #GunViolenceLobby

Abolish Gun Industry Immunity

Gun Industry Immunity

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act shields the gun industry from nearly all civil liability for the dangers their products pose. 

giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-…

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