Urged by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the city of Chicago’s severely underfunded pension funds are divesting their holdings in gun makers to pressure those companies over their stance on gun laws.
The move could deal a hefty blow to the city’s six pension funds, which are only 50 percent funded with combined debt of $26.8 billion. Gun sales have skyrocketed in response to calls for stricter gun control, boosting the companies Chicago is so eager to part with.
Emanuel on Wednesday pressured banks, pension funds and mutual funds across the country to “divest and blacklist” gun Read More
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