As published on its WEE1 Tactical website, this is “the first in a line of shooting platforms that will help adults safely introduce their children to shooting sports.”
The model is based on the well-known AR-15, used in several school massacres, and “looks, feels and operates just like mom and dad’s gun.”
Launched in the middle of last month for less than $400, the JR-15 is 80 centimeters long, weighs less than a kilogram and comes with five or 10-round 22-caliber cartridges.
“It’s just grotesque,” said gun control activist Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center.
Unfortunately, attempts to regulate the carrying of these devices collide in Congress with the powerful gun lobby that wields great influence, in particular the National Rifle Association.
Last year, 20,658 people lost their lives in the United States due to firearms incidents and 691 mass shootings were recorded, according to statistics from the organization Gun Violence Archive.
Other counts revealed that device deaths were up more than 24 percent in 2021 compared to 2019.
In addition, about a hundred people die on average each day here because of gunshots, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In a message to the nation last June, President Joe Biden reported that he met with a bipartisan group of civilian leaders and law enforcement officials to discuss the best way to stop “the epidemic” that is bleeding the country dry.
But on February 14, the fourth anniversary of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were killed and 14 wounded, the president urged Congress to do much more in its effort to combat the armed violence.
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