House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney has invited the CEOs of three major gun manufacturers to testify before the panel, focusing on the firearm industry's role in gun violence.
, the New York Democrat said the committee's upcoming hearing will focus on the firearm industry's role in the gun violence epidemic. She said that includes"the sale and marketing of assault weapons and the broad civil immunity that has been unfairly granted to manufacturers."Maloney wrote to the CEOs that their products"have been used for decades to carry out homicides and even mass murders," including theAfter the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y.
The information the gunmakers provided to the panel"has heightened the committee’s concern that your company is continuing to profit from the sale and marketing of weapons of war to civilians despite the harm these weapons cause, is failing to track instances or patterns where your products are used in crimes, and is failing to take other reasonable precautions to limit injuries and deaths caused by your firearms," she wrote.
She also noted that the gunman in Uvalde, Texas, used an assault rifle manufactured by Daniel Defense. “As the chief executive officer of a major firearms manufacturer that sells millions of assault weapons, your testimony is crucial to understand why your company continues to sell and market these weapons to civilians, what steps your company plans to take to protect the public, and what additional reforms are needed to prevent further deaths from your products,” the letters said.
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