In response to a ProPublica investigation, Sen. Richard Blumenthal demanded answers from the gun industry about its “covert program” to collect information on gun owners for political purposes.
Many of them do care and there’s ample evidence of them pushing back when they find out about it. However ProPublica’s article on this has been directly challenged by the NSSF and they are publicly accusing PP of knowingly misrepresenting what they were told by the NSSF.
In short both PP and the NSSF have clear biases but much of what PP supposedly exposed has been known about for years and other things, such as the Cambridge Analytica part, are presented without evidence. ProPublica’s efforts were likely nothing more than last minute electioneering.
Many of them do care and there’s ample evidence of them pushing back when they find out about it. However ProPublica’s article on this has been directly challenged by the NSSF and they are publicly accusing PP of knowingly misrepresenting what they were told by the NSSF.
https://www.ammoland.com/2024/10/propublicas-falsehoods-exposed-anti-gun-bias-distorts-truth-about-gun-owner-data/
In short both PP and the NSSF have clear biases but much of what PP supposedly exposed has been known about for years and other things, such as the Cambridge Analytica part, are presented without evidence. ProPublica’s efforts were likely nothing more than last minute electioneering.