ProPublica profiles Richard Dyke, who built the company that popularized assault-style rifles in America.
“When the public asks, ‘How did we get here?’ after each mass shooting, the answer goes beyond National Rifle Association lobbyists and Second Amendment zealots. It lies in large measure with the strategies of firearms executives like Dyke. Long before his competitors, the mercurial showman saw the profits in a product that tapped into Americans’ primal fears, and he pulled the mundane levers of American business and politics to get what he wanted.”
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