Amazon pressed on gun accessory sales, a year after Newtown

Via Ross Kerber BOSTON (Reuters) – Activist buyers have requested Amazon.com Inc to review its sales of firearms equipment, involved that the online retailer offers products which may be used to convert semi-automated rifles into weapons that fireside too swiftly to be legal. The shareholder scrutiny of the sector's biggest online retailer comes a day before the anniversary of the school bloodbath in Newtown, Connecticut, the place a gunman killed 26 people. The activists embrace the managers of funds that promote themselves as socially responsible buyers, and a deputy of New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who manages the state's retirement fund. They despatched Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos a letter on November 25 and confirmed it to Reuters on Thursday.