{"id":59150,"date":"2023-08-01T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T23:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59150"},"modified":"2023-08-01T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T23:55:20","slug":"statement-aapi-victory-alliance-sends-letter-to-ftc-chair-lina-khan-urging-regulation-of-deceptive-firearms-advertising-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59150","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT: AAPI Victory Alliance Sends Letter to FTC Chair Lina Khan Urging Regulation of Deceptive Firearms Advertising Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Today,\u00a0AAPI Victory Alliance<\/a>\u00a0sent a letter to Chairperson Lina Khan calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate how the gun industry, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) are exploiting AAPI consumers\u2019 fears of anti-Asian hate crimes to market gun purchases as a safety solution, in response to President Biden\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

AAPI Victory Alliance<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Executive Director\u00a0<\/strong>Varun Nikore<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0issued the following statement<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rise of gun violence and anti-Asian hate has inflicted irreparable emotional, physical and mental harm to the AAPI community. There is a clear and glaring correlation between the significant increase in anti-Asian hate incidents and gun violence across the country. For the sake of our collective future, we have to take a stand against a gun industry that is profiting from harming our everyday safety.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe FTC\u2019s mission is protecting the public from deceptive or unfair business practices and has a long history of protecting consumers \u2013 including children \u2013 from falling prey to deceptive tactics that result in corporate gain. Gun manufacturers who continuously capitalize on and profit from anti-Asian hate \u2013 from arming extremists to pushing weapons of war into our homes \u2013 must be held responsible for their role in proliferating violence. We urge the FTC to investigate and regulate the gun industry\u2019s marketing practices that have resulted in the preventable deaths that have left our communities broken.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014\u00a0Today,\u00a0AAPI Victory Alliance\u00a0sent a letter...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59151,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59150\/revisions\/59151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}