How to encourage divestment from gun companies

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Divestment helped end Apartheid in South Africa. In addition to advocating for more effective gun control laws at the federal and state levels, we can bring financial pressure on gun companies. If resisting reasonable gun control hurts their bottom line, they will change. Like any industry, their sole concern is profits.

The horrific mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was a wake-up call for our nation, and underscored a growing epidemic of gun violence that threatens every American. In New York City, we initiated the process of divesting our public pension fund holdings in companies that manufacture military-grade assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines for sale on the civilian market.

The days of quietly condoning business as usual are over. Investors have a choice to make -- profit off an industry that puts military-grade weapons on our streets, or become a force for change? Join our call for action today by pledging to divest your gun investments and urge institutional investors to do the same.

http://advocate.nyc.gov/guns/pledge
The link above provides information on which funds invest in guns. Inform yourself and then take action.

URGE WALL STREET TO CHANGE

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Use our sample letter to contact the institutional investors on our lists (hedge funds & money managers) and encourage them to join Wall Street for Change by divesting from companies that sell military grade weapons and high-capacity ammunition on the civilian market

http://advocate.nyc.gov/guns/pledge