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The Business of Guns
Documents show that Palmetto State Armory has paid the firm Nelson Mullins to push the levers of power in D.C. — contradicting the hard-edged brand the company promotes to gun buyers.
Extremism
To market their products, ammo makers and gun shops are invoking the memes and rhetoric of a disjointed anti-government ideology blamed for at least one killing spree.
