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63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:06 PM Jun 2016

Trump's Connection to the Maker of the Weapon Used in Orlando


"Donald Trump Jr. holding a Sig Sauer MCX at the company's New Hampshire factory. (His brother, Eric, is second from right.) Sig Sauer/Facebook"

"In his many public remarks since a gunman carried out the deadliest mass shooting in US history, Donald Trump has not specifically mentioned the weapon used in Orlando: a military-style "Black Mamba" MCX. But Trump is quite familiar with the manufacturer of the rifle, Sig Sauer—he and his sons have used the gunmaker as a backdrop for Trump's presidential campaign.

Last May, as Trump was poised to launch his presidential bid, he personally toured the Sig Sauer factory in New Hampshire, where the company makes most of its 74,000 semi-automatic rifles sold in the US market. This February, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric toured the factory, posing for a photo with MCX rifles. And early this year Trump addressed a crowd at the National Shooting Sports Foundation's annual trade show in Las Vegas, where his sons also posed for photos with Sig Sauer representatives.

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/donald-trump-sig-sauer-gun-orlando-mass-shooting
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Trump's Connection to the Maker of the Weapon Used in Orlando (Original Post) 63splitwindow Jun 2016 OP
Fine young white wing gunners. I'd post photo of smiling Trump boys with dead Cheetah, but some Hoyt Jun 2016 #1
Hmmm, show me an example of these guns being used to louis-t Jun 2016 #2
Donald and his unsavory friends flamingdem Jun 2016 #3
Eric is the one Bill Maher calls Dickface Bucky Jun 2016 #4
He looks a little like the dweeb... 63splitwindow Jun 2016 #5
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Fine young white wing gunners. I'd post photo of smiling Trump boys with dead Cheetah, but some
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:14 PM
Jun 2016

folks can't stand to look at the poor big cat and those two pissants.

louis-t

(23,295 posts)
2. Hmmm, show me an example of these guns being used to
Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:29 PM
Jun 2016

save lives in a non-military situation. One. Just one. You will not find it. This is all about killing as many people as you can. Drumpf favors this. The repug party loves mass murder. So do the people on this board who wallow in technical minutiae to defend their gun-loving views. Don't be afraid to say it.

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