SPRINGFIELD — Three times Sister Judy Byron has read American Outdoor Brands’ report on gun safety, gun violence and the company’s role in each.

"Are they doing everything they can to be part of the solution?" Byron said this week by phone from Seattle. "Personally, I didn't find that they were."

American Outdoor Brands, the corporate owner of Springfield-based Smith & Wesson, wrote the 20-page report because of Byron and her fellow nuns.

A member of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, Byron is director of the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investments in Seattle. Her group, as part of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, bought AOBC stock and used their position as stockholders to put a referendum requiring the report on the ballot for a shareholder meeting last September. The measure passed.

The nuns were frustrated, Byron said, by a lack of response from gunmakers in the wake of mass shootings, including the one Feb. 14, 2018, where a gunman used a Smith & Wesson rifle to kill 17 students and staff at high school in Parkland, Florida.

The Parkland shooting led to protests at Smith & Wesson’s factory on Roosevelt Avenue in Springfield. Survivor David Hogg spoke at one of the events.

“We as responsible shareholders will continue to attempt to engage American Outdoor Brands and move them to really accept responsibility for the safety of their products,” Byron said Thursday.

True to the letter of the resolution — which was nonbinding but carried with it the will of the voting majority of shareholders — American Outdoor Brands wrote the report. It was made public Feb. 8.

In it, American Outdoor Brands outlines its public safety efforts when it comes to safely storing firearms and its warnings against being a "straw" buyer and getting a gun for someone who cannot legally buy one.

But AOBC said it won’t develop what are called “smart” guns, which can only be fired by their owner.

Management said the mass shootings don’t hurt the company’s reputation, and it won’t be addressing the shootings or endorsing any gun restrictions.

“The Company’s reputation as a strong defender of the Second Amendment is not worth risking for a vague goal of improving the company’s reputation among non-customers or special interest groups with an anti-Second Amendment agenda,” AOBC wrote in its report.

Byron pointed out that the report came out just before Thursday’s one-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting.

“I didn’t see any reference (in the report) to a social license to operate,” Byron said. “More and more CEOs are realizing that their business has to make a positive contribution to society. I didn’t see any talk of responsibility for the safety of the products they are producing.”

Her group helped convince Dick's Sporting Goods to stop selling assault-style rifles at its Field & Stream stores.

"We as responsible shareholders will continue to attempt to engage American Outdoor Brands and move them to really accept responsibility for the safety of their products," Byron said.

And now it’s not just her Catholic group. Separately, the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts has bought 200 shares of stock in American Outdoor Brands so that it can also influence the company through shareholder ballot questions.

Byron's group bought 200 shares as well. It's the minimum number required to get a question on the ballot.

The Episcopalians want universal background checks, smart gun technology and an end to Smith & Wesson making guns that are illegal to possess in Massachusetts under this state’s stringent gun laws. The diocese said this week that more specifics about its strategy will emerge following a series of meetings later this spring.

Byron said her group is also working on a 2019 strategy.

Smith & Wesson changed its name to American Outdoor Brands in 2016 as part of a diversification push. It has 1,600 employees at its Springfield plant.