On January 26 local time, several U.S. Democratic senators asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into a Chicago gun manufacturer that launched a semi-automatic rifle specifically for children last year.
On the same day, some Democratic senators questioned the company's production of semi-automatic rifles for children and its marketing strategy, arguing that the company violated the relevant regulations of the Federal Trade Commission by reducing the size of the deadly weapon and selling it to children. , should be constrained and controlled.
In February 2022, this gun manufacturer from Chicago launched a children's version of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, named JR-15. Also features a cartoon skull logo.
The price of this gun is 389 US dollars, or about 2640 yuan.
The manufacturer says the JR-15 looks, feels and operates like a grown-up gun.
According to multiple media reports, the AR-15, the prototype gun of the JR-15, was used by the gunman in the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Connecticut and the 2017 Las Vegas concert shooting in Nevada.
Once this gun was launched, it was questioned by many parties, who believed that gun manufacturers would do anything in pursuit of sustained profits.
But this children's semi-automatic rifle can still be sold normally.
In June last year, after protracted bargaining between the two parties in the U.S. Congress, a "bipartisan compromise version" and "strength-reduced version" of the gun control bill were passed.
Some of the key ideas of the gun control camp were not reflected in this bill.
For example, the sale of assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, which have been featured in a string of major mass shootings, is banned.
Some analysts say that the Democratic and Republican parties are only opposing each other for the sake of opposing each other, and Congress has become a political show.