(May 20, 2021 at 12:15 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Fun answer to a dumb question - gun manufacturers do, in point of fact, collect subsidies. Remington is particularly good at it.
Gun manufactures employ the same types of tactics in influencing government that oil companies and big tobbacco do. They are not concerned with public safety and public health anymore than the fossil fuel industry is. It is all about protecting profits and expanding the market.