{"id":34437,"date":"2013-03-19T10:09:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34437"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:09:36","slug":"the-hedge-fund-managers-profiting-off-sandy-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2013\/the-hedge-fund-managers-profiting-off-sandy-hook.html","title":{"rendered":"The hedge fund managers profiting off Sandy Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon &#8211; After Adam Lanza shot dead 20 children in a Connecticut primary school with his mother\u2019s Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, public discourse turned swiftly to the well-hashed gun control debate. Legislation was proposed,\u00a0 teacher gun-training groups launched, Bushmasters<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/bushmasters-disappearing-stores-newtown\/story?id=18008427\">\u00a0<\/a>flew off shelves\u00a0in fear of an impending ban. Meanwhile, the markets were moving.<\/p>\n<p>Arms manufacturers Smith &amp; Wesson,\u00a0\u00a0Cabela\u2019s and Big 5 all boasted sterling third quarter results in the post-Sandy Hook gun boom. A number of big retail chains moved to end sales of AR-15s and similar assault weapons in the wake of the shooting and Cerberus Capital, the New York firm that owned Bushmaster, sold the company, calling the Connecticut shooting a \u201cwatershed event.\u201d But a small number of hedge funds, accustomed to a sadly familiar pattern (gun massacre, leads to fear of gun bans, leads to mass gun sales), moved to make bank on the tragedy and this predictable trajectory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/03\/18\/the_hedge_fund_managers_profiting_off_sandy_hook\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon &#8211; After Adam Lanza shot dead 20 children in a Connecticut primary school with his mother\u2019s Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle, public discourse turned swiftly to the well-hashed gun control debate. Legislation was proposed,\u00a0 teacher gun-training groups launched, Bushmasters\u00a0flew off shelves\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34438,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34437\/revisions\/34438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}