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RE: Firearms industry. At least in my opinion, moral and otherwise, sure they know some of their guns are going to get in to the hands of criminals or those who will later commit crimes, and that is a bad thing. However, the vast majority of sales and weapons are going to perfectly law abiding people.
To me the real issue lies more with actual gun dealers and a lot of the lobbiest groups who push for things like sales without any background checks or documentation (like is legal in, as far as I know, all states between private citizens, at gunshows, etc...just not from authorized dealers). On top of that the dealers that KNOW they are selling to strawmen.
If the manufacturers KNEW that they were selling to a criminal or those that actively sell to criminals, then darned right they should be shut down and brought up on charges immediately. Simply knowing that some of their guns will end up in the hands of criminals to me is a different moral/legal ground though. Now for some of the gunstores and dealers...well a few of them SHOULD be in jail.
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