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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts) Mon Jan 14, 2013, 09:43 PM Jan 2013

NYC Corporate Investors and Hedge Funds involved with Gun Industry

http://advocate.nyc.gov/dirtydozen

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has called on the city’s twelve largest corporate investors in the gun industry to immediately divest from gun manufactures continuing to sell military-grade weapons and ammunition to civilians. The "Dirty Dozen", which are detailed below, together hold more than $1.5 billion in gun company stock.

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NYC Corporate Investors and Hedge Funds involved with Gun Industry (Original Post) LiberalElite Jan 2013 OP

Which explains why there is legislation in the Senate seeking to prevent UN treaties that control patrice Jan 2013 #1

patrice

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1. Which explains why there is legislation in the Senate seeking to prevent UN treaties that control

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Mon Jan 14, 2013, 10:09 PM

Jan 2013

the transfer of guns into 3rd world countries. If this bill is only about domestic gun owners, why does Jerry Moran find it necessary to cite the work of Secretary Clinton as one of the "whereas -es" :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022186767

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