- The House Oversight Committee is investigating how gunmakers market weapons following several mass shootings. - The committee said that companies hard-sell masculinity, allude to white supremacist groups, and tout military-grade weaponry. - "The industry is creating these customers and marketing to them," a policy adviser told Insider. Leading gunmakers made more than $1 billion from selling AR-15-style semiautomatic weapons in the last decade, a report from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform says. These companies use "aggressive marketing tactics" to target young men by emphasizing masculinity, making veiled references to white supremacist groups, and touting military-grade weaponry, the...