A gun industry insider perspective with Ryan Busse (2022)

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We're republishing this episode, which was originally released in June of 2022. There are more guns than cars in the United States. And studies show that gun sales go up following mass shootings. Ryan Busse 30 years as a leader at one of America’s most popular gun companies. Busse is a former firearms executive at Kimber America and is author of “Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America,” in which he talks about how America’s multibillion-dollar gun industry has profited from and fueled cultural divisions. He joins WITHpod to discuss how we got to this point, why he chose to leave the industry, what he observed behind closed doors at NRA meetings, how political division fuels extremism and what the failure to enact stricter legislation means for the future of our democracy.

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0:00.0	Are there black people in the industry?
0:01.6	Very, very few.
0:03.6	Very few.
0:04.6	I mean, I can count on one hand probably,
0:06.7	has the ones that I've met through 25 years in the industry?
0:10.1	So it's really, really a very white space.
0:12.2	It really is, yeah.
0:13.2	It really is.
0:14.2	And is it very extremely male?
0:15.9	It pretty much.
0:16.8	That's changing some, but yeah,
0:18.5	I don't know the official statistics.
0:20.0	If I had to guess, you know,
0:21.9	certainly in the management ranks,
0:23.5	I would guess it in the 75 to 80% male.
0:26.9	Hello, and welcome to Wise.
0:31.0	This happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.
0:32.8	Well, I will tell you the honest truth,
0:42.2	which is that we had planned another podcast for this week,
0:46.0	which is the second week of June, as you're listening this.
0:49.2	But we decided to lay it because of the shooting in Yvall Day,
0:54.1	Texas.
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