As bad as that was, I’m still more pissed at Smith and Wesson: http://www.rense.com/politics6/sellout.htm
They still haven’t repudiated the agreement, and I still won’t buy one, no. But Colt wasn’t exactly too far behind them and was considering signing the same deal before the market backlash occurred.
Colt did sign up to the smart gun thing and took government money to develop one.
Understand that at the time Smith & Wesson held those views it was owned by a foreign entity. It was bought back by an American group sometime after the Clinton ban was put into effect and was completely restructured. Any negative views held for S&W’s actions during the Clinton era are for an influence that, for a decade or more, no longer exists.