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Inside the Secret Gun Industry Project to Change America

For decades, gun manufacturers gathered sensitive, intimate information from their customers and secretly shared it with political operatives to help elect firearm-friendly politicians.

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Senator Slams Gun Industry’s “Invasive and Dangerous” Sharing of Customer Data With Political Operatives

In response to a ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded answers from the gun industry about its “covert program” to collect information on gun owners for political purposes.