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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
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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.”
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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. Tillerson said
anecdotal evidence and
intelligence suggests
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the North is now suff er-
ing fuel shortages, with
queues at gas stations,
and its revenues are
down.
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.”
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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-
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