Gun Manufacturers Got More than $19 Million in State Subsidies over the Last Five Years
Taxpayers across the country are subsidizing the manufacturers of assault rifles used in multiple mass killings, including the massacre of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. last month.
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In 2010, Massachusetts gave $6 million in tax breaks to Smith & Wesson, which announced it was moving a hunting rifle division to the state from New Hampshire. AP
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About this story
This story was reported by Naomi Schalit and John Christie from the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, Nathaniel Herz, a reporter with The New York World and Theresa Sullivan Barger, a freelance writer in Connecticut. Read more about the Maine Center here.