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The Violence Policy Center issued a study detailing how firearms dealers and gun rights lobbyists attract children as young as six years old to hunting and target shooting, including advertising custom-color semi-automatic rifles.
近日，倡导控抢的"暴力政策中心"组织发布研究，详细描述了美国的枪支经销商和持枪权说客，如何通过包括自定义颜色半自动步枪的广告在内的手段来吸引年仅6岁的儿童进行狩猎和射击。
Many rifles are being produced with plastic parts, less weight, and lighter recoil, which make them more usable for children, while more alarming to the Violence Policy Center are guns that come in bright colors like pink or red.
该组织称："枪械行业已经将目光瞄准了美国的儿童。"许多步枪制作时使用了塑料部件，重量更轻，后坐力更小，更便于儿童使用，更令该组织担忧的是，出现了粉色或红色等颜色明亮的枪支。
In one example, the Center points to "NRA Family," a website created by the National Rifle Association, the top lobbyist group for combating further gun control. The website hosts a article to praise the Thompson/Center Hotshot youth rifle, referring to it as "a tiny gun intended for the very youngest shooters -- the ultimate first gun" for children 6-12 years of age.
其中一个例子就是美国最大枪支游说团体全国步枪协会旗下服务年轻会员的网站"全国步枪协会之家"。该网站刊载的一篇文章大加称赞了"汤普森／中心"公司生产的一款体型小巧的步枪，称它是"为年纪不大的儿童量身打造、可以拥有的"第一把枪"。其销售目标群体是6到12岁的儿童。
"Imagine the public outcry if the alcohol or tobacco industries introduced child-friendly versions of their adult products. Yet the firearms industry and gun lobby are doing all of these things and more in their aggressive efforts to market guns to children," Violence Policy Center Executive Director and study author Josh Sugarmann said in a statement.
"想象一下如果烟酒企业向人们介绍儿童版本的成人产品会引起的公愤，"暴力政策研究中心执行理事、报告撰写者乔希·舒格曼在一个声明中表示，"为了向儿童兜售枪支，枪械制造商和游说团体更是无所不用其极。"
The study also refers to a study by Everytown for Gun Safety, also a gun control advocate, which found one in three children live in a home with at least one gun and that on average, guns kill seven children and teenagers in the US everyday.
这项研究还引用了另一个名为"所有城镇都为枪械安全行动起来"的枪支管制倡导者的研究。该研究发现，三分之一的儿童居住在持有至少一件武器的家中，平均每天有７名几岁到十几岁的少年儿童死于枪口之下。
