Posted on 02/27/2013 8:21:08 AM PST by EXCH54FE
New Jersey - -(Ammoland.com)- The newly emerged Firearms Equality Movement is gaining more steam among manufactures and gun rights supporters alike.
The firearms industry, in reaction to the Governor of New York ramming through the NY SAFE Act which banned AR15 style rifles, has seen multiple manufactures revise their firearms sales polices to restrict LEO and Police Agencies from only buying the same level of firepower as is allowed for the average citizen of their state.
Thereby helping to make the citizens equal to police and law enforcement agencies with in the same state, and, in some part, making rouge politicians accountable for their actions trying to disarm the people.
It is important to note that the Movement is not asking industry to join a “conspiracy” but only to make their own sales policies support the right of the individual to keep and bear the same arms as all other classes of people in their respective states. The Firearms Movement is just that, a movementand not collusion, as some have suggested. In the end each and every company is free to do business as they wish.
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Perhaps someone with more information can shed light on this, but I suspect many of the manufacturers who have went on record saying they would limit what they sold or refuse to sell at all probably don’t even have much of any business with law enforcement to begin with. Makes it kind of convenient. Sadly.
Bill Ruger is (fortunately) dead and the current management of the company has zero interest in following in his footsteps in that regard. I wouldn’t take a free Ruger product from the old Ruger, but the new management has managed to sell me an SR556.
See post 22. Bill Ruger is dead and the current management is now making the “high capacity” pistols, “evil black military” rifles, and all the other things Ruger would not countenance while he was alive. They also are a lot more pro-2A than ol’ Bill was.
That is a definite point for many on the list, though LaRue Tactical sells a *lot* to LE.
Fair enough. Though you would think this lingering memory would prompt them to jump on the campaign wholeheartedly.
I have a sneaky suspicion that they’re checking their contracts over carefully to make sure they wouldn’t run afoul of them - not just on the guns side, but the Pine Tree Casting side of the business.
Ruger does have a web page that will allow you to write all of your representatives from state level on up to Federal with just one click, so I suspect they are favorably disposed towards the idea.
We need to keep hammering the big suppliers to join in a class action against these political tyrants. Ditto for the ammunition manufacturers. The point to be kept in mind: total LE sales are less than 1% of $32 billion in annual numbers of firearms sold.
What a bizarre post. But not inappropriate now that I think about it.
People peaceably assembling and agreeing to demand their right per the Bill of Rights, could, I suppose, be prosecuted under the RICO statutes by this illegal and illegitimate Odumbo regime...
And so are we all.
Well, I certainly do.
At a minimum, local law enforcement can never be a class of citizen more equal than others.
Not ever!
What happened to S&W a few years ago?
From what I recall, there was a very active and successful boycott of S&W based on some statements made by the then CEO of the company. After a change in management, the boycott was suspended, IIRC, the current owners actually bought the company out.
There was a lot of press about it in the conservative press, though of course it was blacked out by the MSM.
You and I are absolutely on the same wavelength. Preach it, brother.
If only it was that simple.
S&W decided they wanted Federal contracts really, really bad, so the then-British management agreed to voluntarily comply with the Clinton Administration’s gun control wish list.
http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/jeff_snyder_on_sw.html
http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/sw-hud.html
http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/sw-hud+3.html
Customers and dealers were not happy with S&W and made their displeasure manifest fairly quickly. Sales tanked.
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