Investors Want Amazon to Revisit Sale of Gun Accessories

Activist investors have asked Amazon.com Inc. to review its sales of firearms accessories, concerned that the online retailer offers products that could be used to convert semi-automatic rifles into weapons that fire too rapidly to be legal. The shareholder scrutiny of the world's largest online retailer came a day before the anniversary of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gunman killed 26 people.