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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS gunmaker shares soar after Pulse nightclub massacre
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/13/gun-company-stocks-rise-orlando-pulse-attack?CMP=fb_guShares in two biggest gun manufacturers, Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger & Co, rose by 10% and 9% amid fears US will impose tougher gun control measures
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Gun company shares soared on Monday as traders predicted that Americans will react to the Orlando massacre by rushing out to arm themselves with more guns.
Shares in the two biggest listed US gun manufacturers Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger & Co rose by 10% and 9%, respectively.
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US gunmaker shares soar after Pulse nightclub massacre (Original Post)
G_j
Jun 2016
OP
If you want to get people to buy something talk about possibly banning further sales of that thing.
PoliticAverse
Jun 2016
#2
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)1. Of course they did.
'Merica!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. If you want to get people to buy something talk about possibly banning further sales of that thing.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. Drat! The Free Market (all hail!) has spoken again
Now there's nothing to be done about gun violence. It just keeps happening, even though we've done literally nothing different for years. I sincerely hope the next victims to be sacrificed on the altar of the High Church of Redemptive Violence isn't anyone at DU or any of their loved ones. That's about all that can be done.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)4. I and others have reported this phenomenon for years...
It points to how the "gun control issue" is totally miss cast as social policy. Worse than irrelevant, it is counter productive in so many seemingly unrelated ways.
spanone
(135,874 posts)5. ain't that america
MFM008
(19,818 posts)6. every time
Thats why the NRA makes no statements, they don't have to.
America is in the 9th Crusade.