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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

US gunmakers’ stock price increases the day after 21 were killed in a mass shooting

Timothy A Clary/AFP via Getty Images

Two US gunmakers saw their stock prices increase the morning after a mass shooting left 21 people — mostly children — dead in Texas.

Sturm, Ruger & Company and Smith & Wesson, which are the country's largest gunmakers by value, both saw increases on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, an 18-year-old gunman barricaded himself inside a school in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two adults.

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