Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate an Illinois-based gun manufacturer for marketing firearms to children.
Industry representatives and gun rights activists say it is just one more assault on a Constitutional right Democrats don’t like.
“Today we are asking the FTC to investigate the company that makes and advertises this weapon to kids,” Schumer said during a Jan. 26 press conference.
Schumer was talking about the JR-15, manufactured by Illinois-based Wee1 Tactical. The rifle is a scaled-down .22 long rifle caliber version of the AR-15.
In a YouTube video recorded last year, Eric Schmid, owner of Schmid Tool, the parent company of Wee1, said the rifle is designed to help parents teach marksmanship and gun safety to their children….