Posted on 07/18/2015 4:13:54 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
NEARLY three years ago, in the days after the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, President Obama went to Newtown, Conn., to speak at a vigil for the victims. He spoke movingly, and seemed to embody the nation’s outrage and its determination to reduce the number of people killed with guns in America. “Do not lose heart,” he told the families of the victims. He said he would use “whatever power this office holds.”
He has not done that. He tried one lever of presidential power — proposing legislation. When that didn’t work, the president failed to move the other levers in a meaningful way.
For more than a year, we and fellow religious leaders across the nation have worked to persuade President Obama to use what we believe is the most powerful tool government has in this area: its purchasing power. The federal government is the nation’s top gun buyer. It purchases more than a quarter of the guns and ammunition sold legally in the United States. State and local law enforcement agencies also purchase a large share. Major gun manufacturers depend on these taxpayer-funded purchases. For the government to keep buying guns from these companies — purchases meant to ensure public safety — without making demands for change is to squander its leverage.
Some of the leading brands of handguns purchased by the government — Glock, Smith & Wesson, Sig Sauer, Beretta, Colt, Sturm, Ruger & Company — are also leading brands used in crimes. Among the brands of handguns recovered by the Chicago Police Department at crime scenes between January 2012 and October 2013, all six of these companies ranked in the top 11. . .
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Most gun manufacturers are refusing to do business with New York State police agencies to demonstrate that the 2nd Ammendment is more important than government contracts.
It was never about “the children”. It was always about control.
0vomit is/was easily distracted. He dances to the tune of his puppeteer. Other opportunities for more control and destruction of America came along, so he went with that. (Gay marriage, Iran nukes, flooding the country with illegals, race riots, .... )
Wow....it took four NYT stooges to write this trash piece. Four brains combined and not an intelligent phrase in the whole article.
The freest company in this country is the one that does absolutely no business with the Federal Government.
We see what famous “Colt’s” dealings with the Federal government has wrought - virtual abandonment of the civilian market product line both in quantity and quality.
Now, with dwindling orders from government and competition from other AR platform manufacturers who build just a well and sell cheaper, they do not know what to do. This is true for a lot of the well-known others. (S&W, Springfield, Beretta USA, etc.). You just can’t slap a “Tactical” on the name and make it a quality firearm.
The one outlier from this in my experience/opinion is Ruger.
“purchases meant to ensure public safety”
But individuals shouldn’t be aloud to make purchases for personal safety? No. Of course not. Personal safety is a liberty thing.
We don’t need gun control, we need totalitarian control. Round them up and ship them to North Korea en masse.
Mr Ruger got the message we sent, lo those many years ago.
Nonsense. The profit margin on gov't issued/gov't contract firearms is not very high, and that's if they aren't sold at a loss. Glock being able to say, "The FBI issues Glocks" results in a lot of retail sales of Glocks to civilians.
Of their "leading brands of handguns"; Glock is Austrian, Sig Sauer is German, Beretta is Italian, and Colt is bankrupt. They would tell Obama to pound sand. Sturm, Ruger & Company and Smith & Wesson previously drank the gun control Kool-Aid and it just about destroyed their sales. (Colt also did and it helped bring them to Bankruptcy Court, along with a lot of other bad management decisions.)
So since criminals can't easily get cheap Chinese guns anymore, now it's expensive American guns the gun grabbers are going after.
The real objective is always and only to end civilian gun ownership.
All of those manufacturers know that the civilian market is bigger and more dependable than the government market, and all of them know that jumping into bed with the gun grabbers almost put Smith and Wesson out of business a few years ago.
I have 6 pistols and one rifle from there. Every one a masterpiece IMO. Their SR1911s are the best on the market as far as I’m concerned for a standard product.
I’ve also got a few $1000+ weapons from Colt, and some very expensive revolvers from S&W in a variety of flavors. There is no comparison of these with the Rugers.
NYC should join the EU and stop pretending to be American.
Ruger started to play footsie with the Clinton’s in the 90s, you may recall. Whatever percentage of firearms the feral gummint buys the manufacturers soon learn We by the rest. Sort of like the GOP dissing it’s base, do so at peril.
Yes, I knew. It’s hard to find one that hasn’t been intimidated by government. But their quality hasn’t suffered like the others, IMO.
“Four brains combined and not an intelligent phrase in the whole article.”
...and every one of them thinks that hey have the infallible intelligence of gods.
IMHO
I guess at the NY Slimes they never heard of settled law.
Actually after all the talk, B Clinton gave the Chinese a waver so they could import several hundred thousand SKSs.
They were so cheap you could get one for less then $50.
While the Chinese were bringing in the SKSs they were also smuggling in full auto weapons for the gangs in LA, the same gangs that started the LA riots in 1992 that helped get B Clinton elected.
You might also recall during B Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign, while the Chinese were arming up the gangs with full auto weapons, B Clinton and company were ginning up civil unrest claiming black churches were being burned and if B Clinton wasn’t reelected the KKK would be back, blacks would be denied the vote and blacks would be put back into slavery.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
The Clintons couldn’t possibly have known the Chinese were arming up the gangs with full auto weapons while he and his campaign were doing everything possible to gin up civil unrest.
The prime importers were Norinco and Polypro Industries and who was their US agent/representative in the US, why Dick Blum of course. His name ring a bell?
A lot of these AK’s are still out there and I have a suspicion that the full auto AK that was used in Carson City to shoot up the NG members at a pancake house may have been one of the left overs.
Government is also a notoriously slow paying customer.
I have a Ruger Mini 14 Ranch Rifle and for me it's the best all around rifle I've ever owned.
Maybe one day before I die I’ll get around to getting one.
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