For nearly a century, the federal government has regulated which firearms can be used to hunt waterfowl with relatively little controversy, even today.
A House panel found that the companies have thrived in the past decade by selling and marketing military-grade weapons to civilians, specifically young men.
The number of firearms in the U.S. is outpacing the country’s population, as an emboldened gun industry and its allies target buyers with rhetoric of fear, machismo and defiance.