Read our 2018 AOBC exempt solicitation here. A similar 2018 proposal at American Outdoor Brands Company also won a significant 52% of the vote. In valdation of the level of investor concern around this issue, the 2018 resolution at gun maker Sturm Ruger requesting details on company activities to make its products safer garnered nearly 70% support. The statement was endorsed by 142 investors representing US$634 billion in managed assets. In 2018, we also released an Investor Statement on Gun Violence, identifying 13 actions companies can adopt to reduce the risk of gun violence, many of them taken/adapted from the Sandy Hook Principles. Subsequently, Dick's agreed to stop selling assault-style weapons at its Field & Stream stores, and raised the minimum age of gun purchasers to 21. The resolution was withdrawn following a productive dialogue with company management. ICCR member Mercy Investment Services filed the campaign's first shareholder resolution in late 2017, at Dick's Sporting Goods to open a discussion with the company about the clear business and moral case for immediate corporate action. While the report did answer the requests of the resolution, it revealed a corporate mindset that differs starkly from that of its shareholders. The resolutions follow the publication of an AOBC report on its gun safety measures published in response to our 2018 shareholder proposal which received majority support at the company’s 2018 annual meeting. In this, the second year of its campaign to curb gun violence, ICCR members filed 3 shareholder resolutions with American Outdoor Brands Company, calling on the company to adopt a proxy access bylaw, to develop a human rights policy, and to prohibit holding virtual-only annual general meetings of stockholders. While legislators seek to push gun reform bills through Congress and victims of mass shootings bring lawsuits agaist gun makers, in late 2017 ICCR members began pressing both American Outdoor Brands (parent company of Smith & Wesson) and Sturm Ruger, two of the nation's leading gun manufacturers to review their businesses to learn what they might change in order to curb firearm misuse. in 2017 - that translates to around 110 people per day - of which 60% are suicides and roughly 37% are homicides. The CDC reports that 40,000 people died from firearms in the U.S.
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