An act of civic responsibility

<p>Dennis doesn&rsquo;t look too happy here, but he should be. After all, he and his company are riding the wave of the latest mass shooting and AR-15&rsquo;s are flying off the shelf. Colt and Veilleux are shamelessly making a killing off of the public&rsquo;s insatiable appetite for their &ldquo;sporting&rdquo; rifle.</p> <p>But Colt wasn&rsquo;t always like this. There was a time when they seemed to actually give a shit about the misuse of their beloved AR-15. Barely 30 years ago, Colt executives decided to stop making the AR-15 after it became the gun of choice among organized crime &mdash; specifically drug gangs. &ldquo;We sense a great concern on the part of the government toward the possible inappropriate misuse of semi-automatic weapons,&rdquo; then-Colt spokesman Michael Dunn told The New York Times. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re responding to that concern.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://tomemens.medium.com/an-act-of-civil-responsibility-97dbd1c01575"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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