Dan Cooper, Founder of Cooper Arms, Sacked [snip]

Wow! The People have spoken!!! Now, if only we could get our Government to be like Cooper Arms and actually listen to Voice of The People!

Gun Manufacturer Executive Backs Barack Obama, Watch What Happens Next:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - Transsylvania Phoenix

Dan Cooper CEO of Cooper Arms, one of the elite makers of hunting rifles, is backing Barack Obama.

WASHINGTON — Dan Cooper, a proud member of the National Rifle Association, has backed Republicans for most of his life. He’s the chief executive of Cooper Arms, a small Montana company that makes hunting rifles.

Cooper said he voted for George W. Bush in 2000, having voted in past elections for every Republican presidential nominee back to Richard Nixon. In October 1992, he presented a specially made rifle to the first President. Bush during a Billings campaign event.
This year, Cooper has given $3,300 to the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama. That’s on top of the $1,000 check he wrote to Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign in 2004, after he was dazzled by Obama’s speech at that year’s Democratic National Convention.

Just minutes after the USA Today broke the story on the Internet, thousands and thousands of gun owners sent angry emails, called and sent boycott letters to Cooper Arms threatening to never purchase any of their firearms again.

Just 48 hours later, this is what appeared on the company website:

In response to the recent article highlighting Dan Cooper’s personal political donations, the board of directors, shareholders and employees of Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc would like to issue the following statement.
The employees, shareholders and board of directors of Cooper Firearms of Montana do not share the personal political views of Dan Cooper.
Although we all believe everyone has a right to vote and donate as they see fit, it has become apparent that the fallout may affect more than just Mr. Cooper. It may also affect the employees and the shareholders of Cooper Firearms.
The board of directors has asked Mr. Cooper to resign as President of Cooper Firearms of Montana, Inc.
Daily operations will continue with the competent staff currently in place in Stevensville, MT producing the finest, most accurate rifles money can buy.
Dan Cooper has spent all of his working life producing the highest quality rifles built here in the USA. He started with nothing but the American Dream and built that into firearms company anyone would be proud of. We firmly believe Dan stands by the 2nd amendment.
We wish him all of the best in his future pursuits.

He’s gone, I guess. That was quick

He said what he did and that was plausible and defensible to most. The USA article was a spin , such as that of Obama where he said he never gave a dime to ACORN. He gave 800k during the primaries. Cooper “says” he gave coin to defeat Hillary as he felt the GOP could beat Obama but not Hillary. USA today spun that to make it appear as if Cooper was supporting Obama NOW !

He donated CASH ! He could have just voted in the primaries against Hillary versus giving CASH to Obama.

He isn’t according to his comments the last few days . I don’t believe Cooper. I have met Cooper and do not like him as he spun a shooting trip to NM where a lucky shot was made at great range into a credit to his rifle building skills in a ad his company placed later. That’s my personal opinion of him and his gun.

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