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Article snippet: Stock prices for firearm companies rose this week after a gunman killed dozens of people in Las Vegas, an apparent continuation of a morbid trend linked to mass shootings. But investors were more muted than they had been in recent years, a sign of Wall Street’s increasing skepticism about how much influence mass shootings can exert on gun control legislation, especially in a Trump administration. Although the 2016 presidential election eased concerns among gun advocates about tighter rules, gun companies have struggled since the vote, with falling sales and excess inventory. The shooting on Sunday was the deadliest in modern American history, with at least 59 people dead and more than 520 injured. The tragedy drew calls for gun control, as such massacres have in the past. The prospect of tighter gun rules often leads consumers to stockpile firearms. Wall Street, sensing a sales upswing, piles into gun manufacturer and retailer stocks. This time, however, its reaction seemed more tepid than it was after previous major shootings. On Monday, shares in Sturm, Ruger & Company, the Southport, Conn., maker of Ruger handguns and rifles, rose 3.5 percent, then an additional 2.1 percent on Tuesday. Last year, the day after a gunman killed 49 people and wounded 53 at the packed Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016, the gun maker’s stock price swung up 8.5 percent. And it eventually rose 10 percent in the days after two attackers killed 14 people and wounde... Link to the full article to read more