A gun manufacturer will debut an assault rifle for children called the JR-15 in the coming months, and Democrats are urging regulators to take action. MatthewStieb reports
the feature to a pill bottle: It could stop younger kids, but “your 12-year-olds are going to unlock it real easy.”
The overall safety pitch for gun manufacturers like WEE1 is that when a child is taught how to use a gun under adult supervision, they will be less likely to use it improperly. But some gun-safety advocates doubt the effectiveness of such education. “Gun manufacturers make an AR-15 for adults, but that hasn’t prevented adults who own those rifles legally from in some cases irresponsibly using them, or from them being used in acts of mass violence,” says Dr.
WEE1, which declined an interview request, also encourages proven safety measures, such as proper storage, and has voluntarily dialed back some of its marketing. The baby skulls with pacifiers are gone, and the company now touts its gun as a “small piece of American freedom.” But with the JR-15 getting into kids’ hands this year at $419 a pop, the controversy isn’t going away.
The FTC calls, which have not yet resulted in official inquiries, are part of a new front of lawmaker efforts to stop the sale of semiautomatic weapons, which are
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