Without Knowledge or Consent:
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names ...
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Secret Data Sharing Among Gun Industry GiantsOver 5.5 million firearm owner records were covertly shared to influence US elections from 2000 onward.
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- Top American gun manufacturers secretly transferred sensitive customer information to political operatives for years.
- The data, mainly from warranty cards, formed a vast database containing millions of gun owners’ details.
- The National Shooting Sports Foundation used this information to mobilize voters supporting pro-gun candidates since 2000.
- The NSSF claims its data practices were lawful despite widespread concerns about undisclosed private registries.
This is super troubling. You shouldn’t take people’s data without them knowing what you’re doing with it — and give it or sell it to others. It is the customer’s information, not the company’s.— Jon Leibowitz, former Federal Trade Commission chair, when presented with information about the NSSF database.
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