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November 22, 2017 The Skanner Page 11 Bids & Classifi ed Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Guns cont’d from pg 9 to young people who may be unstable and in- tent on infl icting mass casualties. The lawsuit against Remington Arms was dismissed because of broad immu- nity granted to the gun industry, but the Con- necticut Supreme Court is weighing whether to reinstate it. “They used images of soldiers in combat. They used slogans invoking battle and high-pres- sure missions,” Joshua Koskoff , a lawyer for the families, told justices at “ a nod to the now-defunct company that designed the fi rst one. The indus- try calls them “modern sporting rifl es” or “tacti- cal rifl es.” About half are owned by current or former members of the military or law enforcement, ac- cording to the National Shooting Sports Founda- tion, which represents gun makers. Their marketing, cou- pled with the lift ing of a decade-long ban and the return of many veterans who used them on de- ployments, have helped drive their popularity. Gun sales leveled off this past year aft er nearly a Remington may never have known Adam Lanza, but they had been courting him for years a hearing. “Remington may never have known Adam Lanza, but they had been courting him for years.” Most mass shootings — defi ned by federal au- thorities as involving four or more deaths out- side the home — are car- ried out with handguns. But this year, gunmen have used AR-style fi re- arms in mass shootings in Las Vegas, Texas and Northern California. They were also used in the 2016 Orlando night- club shooting and in 2015 in San Bernardino, California. The rifl es are involved in only a small percent- age of gun deaths each year. Of the approxi- mately 13,000 gun deaths excluding suicides that happen annually in the United States, about 300 involve the use of rifl es — AR-style and more tra- ditional long guns. To Erich Pratt, exec- utive director of Gun Owners of America, gun-control advocates focus on vilifying the weapon and not the peo- ple behind the crimes. And, he notes, the gun- man in Texas who killed more than two dozen churchgoers was pur- sued by a man nearby who shot at him with his own AR rifl e. “Here’s another at- tempt to demonize a weapon that a lot of Americans look to for self-defensive purpos- es,” Pratt said. Yet it was another man with an AR-15 who is “the one who’s hailed for having stopped the guy.” An estimated 8 million AR-style guns have been sold since they were in- troduced to the public in the 1960s. The name refers to ArmaLite Rifl e, decade of record-break- ing numbers, but the in- dustry is banking on the allure of the AR — and its many accessories — to keep it going. The weapons are known as easy to use, easy to clean and easy to modify with a variety of scopes, stocks and rails. Accordingly, a Sig Sauer ad plays up the ability to customize its AR-style weapons, showing an image of soldiers holed up in a building in the midst of battle. “The reason these guns have become so popular is because they’re like an iPhone 10,” Winkler said. “They’re smooth, sleek, cool-looking.” Once the domain of smaller gun dealers, the weapons are now wide- ly sold by huge retailers such as Wal-Mart, Cabe- la’s and Bass Pro Shops. Those companies are also selling more weap- ons to fi rst-time gun buyers, said Rommel Di- onisio, who has watched the industry closely as To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu a fi nancial analyst and managing director of Aegis Capital Corp. Sales of military-style rifl es plummeted in 2017 compared with a year earlier, when people were stocking up amid fears that a Hillary Clin- ton presidency would lead to stricter gun laws. Donald Trump’s sur- prise election victory erased those fears but left the gun industry with an oversupply and weak demand. American Outdoor Brands, which includes Smith & Wesson fi re- arms, reported in Sep- tember that quarterly revenue in its long guns category dropped by 64 percent from the prior year due to lower de- mand for its modern sporting rifl es. The com- pany reported shipping 51,000 long guns in that period compared with 111,000 the prior year. Against that backdrop, many gun companies have cut prices, off ered rebates and slowed their manufacturing. Some makers of AR-15 rifl es dropped prices earli- er this year to as low as $399 — a level that would have been unheard of a year before. “It really is a buyer’s market out there right now,” Sturm, Ruger & Company Inc. CEO Christopher Killoy told analysts on a recent con- ference call. Those deals come with a steady dose of ads that highlight the patriotic notions of carrying an AR. “That’s what they’re emphasizing, that these are sort of a lifestyle weapon,” Winkler said. “This is a weapon you buy if you’re a patriotic guy who loves the idea of those military shoot- ers, someone who would use your guns to defend your nation.” SHOWTIMES WONDERSTRUCK (PG) Fri-Thur: 11:20, 4:40, 7:10 THE FOREIGNER (R) Fri-Thur: 11:45, 6:55 KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (R) Fri-Thur: 11:45, 6:55 World News Briefs Trump Administration Announces Sanctions Against North Korea WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administra- tion is due to announce new sanctions on North Korea on Tuesday aft er declaring it a state spon- sor of terrorism in the latest push to isolate the pariah nation. North Korea on Mon- day joined Iran, Sudan and Syria on the terror blacklist, a largely sym- bolic step as the admin- istration already has the authority to impose vir- tually any sanctions it wants on Kim Jong Un’s government over its nu- clear weapons develop- ment. As part of its “max- imum pressure” cam- paign, President Donald Trump said the Trea- sury Department would impose more sanctions on North Korea and “re- lated persons” starting Tuesday, without hint- ing who or what would be targeted. It is part of rolling eff ort to deprive Pyongyang of funds for its nuclear and missile programs and leave it in- ternationally isolated. “It will be the highest level of sanctions by the time it’s fi nished over a two-week period,” Trump said. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday the pressure campaign was starting to bite in Pyongyang, which is already facing unprec- edented U.N.-mandated sanctions over its nu- clear and ballistic mis- sile tests. 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Almost 60,000 Haitians Allowed to Stay in US Only Until 2019 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump adminis- tration said it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a powerful earthquake shook the Caribbean na- tion in 2010. The Homeland Secu- rity Department said conditions in Haiti have improved signifi cantly, so the benefi t will be ex- tended one last time — until July 2019 — to give Haitians time to prepare to return home. “Since the 2010 earth- quake, the number of displaced people in Haiti has decreased by 97 percent,” the depart- ment said in a statement issued Monday evening. “Haiti is able to safely receive traditional lev- els of returned citizens.” ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS TECHNICIAN Electronic Systems Technicians (ESTs) work in the Data Acquisition & Management Section in the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmen- tal Services. Electronic Systems Technicians (ESTs) perform fi eld and office work to maintain, operate, troubleshoot and repair the City’s en- vironmental monitoring data acquisition system to collect, monitor, report and manage data from 200 remote monitoring locations. For more in- formation and to apply, please visit www.portlan- doregon.gov/jobs. 11-22-17 HEAD START TEACHERS Mt Hood Community College’s Head Start is seeking Teachers. Our teachers provide a safe and supervised educational setting for children that promotes their social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development, as well as day-to-day supervi- sion of classroom staff and volunteers. Salary is $139.36-$167.52 dai- ly. More information at: https://www.government- jobs.com/careers/mhc- c?keywords=head%20 start. Contact Anne at anne.blumenauer@ mhcc.edu or (503) 491- 6142 with any questions. 11-22-17 Advocates and mem- bers of Congress from both parties had asked the Trump administra- tion for an 18-month ex- tension of the program, known as Temporary Protected Status. Hai- tian President Jovenel Moise’s government also requested the extension. Rony Ponthieux, a 49-year-old Haitian nurse with temporary residency who has lived in Miami since 1999, told The Associated Press, “This isn’t over, this is time we get to fi ght for renewal, not to pack our bags.” She has a daugh- ter and a son born in the United States and anoth- er son in Port-au-Prince. Please re-use or recycle this newspaper. HR PARTNER Central City Concern is looking for a HR Partner to join our team. 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