Uber’s gun industry partner

Uber signed the 2019 CEOs for Gun Safety letter, but the company didn’t put its name on the 2022 version, despite recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde. We don’t know why Uber is missing from the letter, but we know this: since 2019 Uber has closely partnered with a top gun industry law firm.

Court records show that Uber has used Shook Hardy & Bacon 13 times since 2019. Shook’s clients include Smith & Wesson, Glock, Beretta and other gun makers. The law firm also represents the main firearms industry trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).

Court document showing Shook Hardy’s representation of Uber (Sarchi, et al. v. Uber Technologies, Inc., et al., 2022 ME 8)

This year, Shook Hardy is working with its gun clients to kill a New York law allowing civil suits against gunmakers and it also represents Smith & Wesson in a lawsuit by Parkland parents.

Uber’s apparent change of heart on publicly supporting common sense gun safety laws, at the same time that it’s working closely with a gun industry law firm, raises obvious questions about whether it has chosen to put its gun industry friends over its concerns about gun violence.