FFC, along with many institutional investors and asset managers, seeks a review of the company’s sales of military-style assault rifle accessories. Though Amazon doesn’t itself sell guns, it does sell products that may be contributing to gun violence. Every year, more than 8,000 Americans are killed by guns, and young African-Americans and Hispanic men bear the brunt of this violence. Today, with between 70 and 80 million Americans collectively owning 300 million firearms, one way the gun industry intends to expand is through the sale of firearm accessories. Accessory products offered by Amazon include the Slide Fire SFS M&P 15-22 kit, which allows the shooter to “shoot as quickly as desired,” according to the product’s description on Amazon.com, andamazon the Enhanced Battery Assist Lever for the popular AR15 semi-automatic rifle, the type of gun used in the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings. Many groups and individuals are doing their part to help prevent and reduce gun violence. A number of institutional investors, including FFC, do not invest in firearm producers. Others have withdrawn ownership of certain problematic companies, as for example The Philadelphia Board of Pensions and Retirement with its policy to “divest half of its holdings in gun and ammunition manufacturers, distributors and retailers.” FFC believes that Amazon’s military-style accessories to assault rifles pose unacceptable risks to the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. To view the letter, click here. Reuters story on request by investors to Amazon.