Our Chance to Vote out the NRA
BlackRock, Vanguard & Other Major Fund Managers
On May 9th, Sturm Ruger, the country’s largest gun manufacturer, will hold its annual shareholder meeting. One Ruger board member, Sandra Froman, is a long-time NRA leader who is openly hostile to any efforts to reform the gun industry and has attacked gun companies that have attempted change. Froman and the NRA are clearly a major influence on Sturm Ruger’s decision NOT to follow the lead of other large retailers and banks supporting common-sense gun reforms. This cannot stand.
More has come to light in the last week making even clearer that Froman is unfit for Ruger's board. Early in her career, she helped the infamous William Shockley advance pseudoscientific theories claiming Black people were genetically inferior. More recently she's helped lead a powerful, secretive far-right organization that elevates the voices of anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant extremists, racists and conspiracy theorists, with the goal of changing policy and governance in the US.
Together we can take action and put pressure on gun companies by calling on major investors to vote against re-electing Sandra Froman — and the NRA — to the Sturm Ruger board!
Please join us in demanding accountability now!
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On May 9th, you have a choice: vote to support long-time NRA leader Sandra Froman for the board of America’s largest gun manufacturer, or not. Froman has consistently opposed common-sense gun reform and has attacked gun companies that dare try to do the right thing. In this moment, we need gun companies to play their proper role in achieving public safety, and we believe that Froman is an obstacle to any meaningful reform. We are calling on you to vote against Froman staying on the board of Sturm, Ruger & Co.