Current Events in the Gun Industry

“There is not an epidemic of school shootings,” he said, adding that more kids are killed each year from pool drownings or bicycle accidents.

“I had a great meeting tonight with @realDonaldTrump & @VP. We all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people,” said NRA’s Chris Cox on Twitter.

“Or, Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court,” Trump said. “Because that’s another system. A lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process. I like taking the guns early”

The millennial formula for social change goes something like this: read Buzzfeed, get angry, rage on Twitter, join a protest, break a window, wash, rinse, and repeat.

Dick’s Sporting Goods announced Wednesday that it will no longer sell those scary “assault weapons” or those high-capacity “clips” at any of its stores or affiliated retail locations.

“Assault weapons were made for one purpose,” said Cicilline in a press release. “They are designed to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time. They do not belong in our communities.”

Following the high school killings in Parkland, Florida, several of the NRA’s corporate partner’s have abandoned the nation’s gun lobby. On Saturday, the NRA released a statement.

“The clerks did an outstanding job of fighting him,” Tulsa Police Sgt. Dave Walker told KJRH.

“There are no words,” said Sheriff Israel, who described himself as “devastated, sick to my stomach.”