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California Pension Fund Urged To Stop Investing In Gun Sellers

Fox40– Families of mass shooting victims are joining California State Treasurer John Chiang in calling on the nation’s largest public pension fund to stop investing in companies that sell assault weapons and devices that allow guns to fire more rapidly.

Chiang spoke Monday at a board meeting of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, alongside family members of people who died in the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino that killed 14 people and advocates for stricter gun laws. The wife of a high school teacher who died in Parkland, Florida, sent a letter supporting the effort by Chiang, a Democrat running for governor.

“Enough is enough,” Chiang told The Associated Press in an interview. “You have to go to what moves people, and we know money moves people.”

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