But will they stop selling to LEO in California? Stop servicing LEO guns as well?
“...But will they stop selling to LEO in California? Stop servicing LEO guns as well?...”
The article I read on Fox said that LEO organizations are exempt from having to have the microtechnology. However, EVERY gun manufacturer needs to quit selling in CA to EVERYONE; LEOs included and quit providing parts and service.
Just isolate the miserable communist POS completely.
LEO’s are exempt from the legislation.
“But will they stop selling to LEO in California? Stop servicing LEO guns as well?”
The answer, I hope, is YES!!
“..But will they stop selling to LEO in California? Stop servicing LEO guns as well?..”
Barrett Firearms did. They outright flat refused to do business - sales, parts, repairs - with CA because of the .50 ban.
The law has the potential to disarm California LEOs
No manufacturer is going to comply, because it affects their entire operations.
It’s not simple as Smith deciding not to sell to LE. Smith sells to distributors, who in turn sell to stores and any LE agency.
So while Smith could request none of their distributors sell to CA LE agencies, it would be up to them to decide if they wanted to comply.
And if somehow each one of these distributors did decide to turn down a lucrative LE purchase, it would be easy for someone in the CA gov to set up an out of state shell corp to make the purchase (for a nice little fee paid for by the taxpayers of course) and then transfer them to whatever CA LE agency wanted a new Smith.
So there’s really not a lot Smith or Ruger can do here, but hopefully Kimber won’t be making any new SIS models now.
Exactly. Not just S&W, either. ALL the gun companies should immediately stop selling to government and LEO agencies in Kalifornia.
When the contracts with the Feds expire, either re-word them to reflect a more favorable treatment or cancel and stop selling to the Feds until after the 2014 or possibly 2016 election cycle.