Sentences with phrase «gun companies»

Completely cutting ties with gun companies can be rather complicated for investors.

Their devotion to wealthy gun company executives leaves them with no reservations about spreading lies and promoting fear that gun safety advocates want to take away their guns.

DiNapoli has influenced corporations to make greater disclosure of political campaign contributions, and he divested some stock in gun companies after the shootings at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut.

So all three U.S. public gun companies are involved in the scary looking rifle business.

U.S. gun companies manufactured more than 11 million firearms in 2016, setting a new record in a year of sales driven by fear of a Hillary Clinton presidency.

Remington isn't the only gun company facing sales declines.

Reaction to the firm's plans has been «mixed» among gun companies, she said.

Congress granted gun companies industrywide immunity from blame when one of their products is used in a crime.

The $ 48 billion fund, Cerberus Capital Management, eventually folded Bushmaster into Remington along with other gun companies.

But the evidence is already clear: Remington, America's oldest gun company, which since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 has struggled to access the capital markets or find any buyer, filed for bankruptcy protection just two days before the shooting in Parkland.

Some of the nation's oldest and largest gun companies are still based in the legendary «Gun Valley» region of New England, but there are other manufacturers scattered around the nation.

Teachers» pension funds in these 12 states hold stocks in such gun companies as American Outdoor Brands and Sturm Ruger & Co..

Very similar to the 4 January New York Times article: «Gun Magazine editor surprised when gun companies stop sending him free samples after declaring support for gun control»

«I don't see Vanguard and BlackRock dropping the big gun companies from their broad index ETFs, where the goal is to include all sectors and companies,» says Dan Hallett, director of asset management for HighView Financial Group.

While stock pickers can simply decide not to invest in gun companies, which also comprises Olin (oln) and Vista Outdoor (vsto), life is a bit more thorny for holders of mutual and exchange - traded funds in tax - advantaged accounts like a 401 (k) or an IRA.

Wall Street is deeply tied to the sprawling, opaque gun industry through pension funds that buy into public gun companies, private equity firms with firearms holdings and financial institutions that back sizable loans to handgun and rifle manufacturers.

The key question: What is a gun company?

Barron's says that «The gun companies generate huge controversy, but not much in the way of investor value — the market cap of all three gun stocks combined is just $ 2.5 billion, a rounding error in the trillions of dollars managed by Vanguard and BlackRock.»

The gun companies contend that federal law shields them from the families» claims, and a lower court judge agreed, dismissing the lawsuit in 2016.

Gun - rights organizations also weighed in, including the National Rifle Association, which argued that the case stood to «eviscerate» the gun companies» legal protections.

JPMorgan and fellow Remington creditors may opt to try to sell the gun company.

The lawsuit has high stakes for both gun companies and gun - control advocates because it is testing a novel strategy to find a route around the broad protections granted by federal law that shield the companies from litigation if their product is used to commit a crime.

But he says other states and the federal government may be limiting assault weapons soon, and the gun companies will have a lot more than New York state's ban to worry about.

When they gave the gun companies immunity from lawsuits, that relieved the pressure on the gun companies and they didn't do the redesigns that they could have done.

But he says other states and the federal government may be limiting assault weapons soon, and the gun companies will have a lot more than New Yorks State's ban to worry about.

Again, haven't we seen this before where the main protagonist is completely out of his or her element but decides to battle a giant behemoth whether it's the smoking industry, big banks, or gun companies?

The gun company has hired the assistance of Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman), an omniscient jury consultant who can find dirt on anyone.

John Cusack (Identity, Serendipity) stars as Nick Easter, who reluctantly goes in for jury duty for a major trial involving the lawsuit of the gun company which manufactured the weapon used in an office shooting which killed almost a dozen people, including the plaintiff's husband.

I learn his 1996 novel The Runaway Jury dealt with a lawsuit against a tobacco company, but for the movie version, the screenwriters have changed it to a case against a gun company.

(Many ESG funds don't invest in gun companies.)

So does simply avoiding buying guns altogether, since as demand goes down, these gun companies lose money and their CEOs have to come up with new ways for the company to be profitable — and keep shareholders happy.

Many Americans are financially connected to the firearms industry through retirement plans or index funds that own stocks in gun companies.

Jim isn't bothered, he tweeted: «I'd like to respond to all the conservative bundits out there personally but I'm far too busy NOT stumping for the gun companies!»