Anticompetitive Gun Industry Pricing Memo

Guns Down America recently uncovered widespread — and likely illegal — anticompetitive pricing practices in the gun industry that artificially inflate prices and threaten public safety. 

Policymakers should do everything in their power to hold the industry accountable for these practices, including:

• Using their investigative powers to compel the industry to provide comprehensive information about their pricing agreements and economic surveillance systems; 
• Taking enforcement action against industry actors that have set illegal price floors and inflated prices for consumers;
• Passing legislation that tightens antitrust standards; and
• Ensuring their constituents are aware of the ways that the gun industry is taking advantage of them to make more profits.

Our memo provides messaging guidance you can use to communicate about this issue with your constituents.