Posted on 01/03/2018 8:28:41 AM PST by Simon Green
Gun control groups marched in Connecticut last month to demand Sturm, Ruger and Co. stop manufacturing its AR-556 rifle — the same model used in the Texas church shooting in November.
Gays Against Guns — an LGTBQ gun control group founded in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting — led a demonstration Dec. 17 through the streets of Fairfield to Ruger’s headquarters in Southport where protesters waved signs accusing the company of making “massacre weapons.”
“Sturm, Ruger and all the other AR-15 manufacturers out there have blood on their hands for continuing to profit off of weapons that should have never left the battlefield,” said Natalie James, an activist affiliated with Gays Against Guns. “The massacre in Sutherland Springs last month and the massacre that happened in nearby Sandy Hook five years ago are bloody and tragic reminders that these weapons are not fun and games and should be banned for civilian use.”
Law enforcement in Sutherland Springs, Texas discovered a Ruger AR-556 rifle outside the First Baptist Church Nov. 5 where 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley gunned down 26 people during a morning service.
Kelley, a former Airman, should’ve never owned the rifle or the three other firearms federal investigators later traced back to him from dealers in Texas and Colorado. The U.S. Air Force court-martialed, jailed and discharged Kelley for assaulting his wife and infant stepson in 2012, but failed to report the convictions to the FBI — a widespread problem military officials admit has existed since 1997.
Gays Against Guns has targeted gun makers for its dramatic protests before — including two demonstrations at BlackRock in 2016 over the investment firm’s significant holdings in Smith & Wesson and Ruger shares.
“Know that BlackRock has millions of stock invested in Smith & Wesson,” the group said after a September 2016 protest at an NYC investor’s conference . “Both BlackRock and Smith & Wesson are complicit in death and the culture of gun violence that plagues this country.”
The group also called for a reinstatement of the 1994 assault weapons ban and urged lawmakers to reject the National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act currently pending in the Senate. The bill passed the House Dec. 6 on a vote of 231-198.
The key here is that they didn’t need to drive far. All of these butt-burglars live in that town and didn’t need to inconvenience themselves to travel to NY, PA or points west to do so.
They stopped in at a CT company just because. It had nothing to do with what they make, or what was used.
And at least the Village People were Pro-Cop.
With the treat of AIDS still very real
it seems like each poofter is the one with the built-in massacre equipment.
I see what you did there.
My firearm is far less likely to cause death and mayhem than their lifestyle is.
Ruger should move it’s headquarters to Prescott, Az. Way friendlier environment.
Ban Fags Now!
Commies and Nazis Against the Second Amendment. Send them to North Korea.
That would be like people wanting to ban Oldsmobiles after Teddy and Chappaquiddick.
I wish my Family had money when I was a Kid.
I would have had my Dad buy me one of those War Surplus German Anti Tank Cannons for $179 that I saw in a Magazine Ad.
Could any one of those Morons explain what an Assault Weapon actually is?
Heck, I’ve owned Firearms since I was eight years old and I don’t know what an Assault Weapon is, only what people “think” it is.
A Baseball Bat is just a Baseball Bat until someone hits you over the head with one. Then it becomes a Deadly Weapon.
BTW - Do these Morons know that an Armed Citizen with a AR-15 is the one who stopped the Texas Church Shooter?
My Liberal Eviroweenie B-I-L got upset at me when I told him more People died in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile than did at Three Mile Island.
SR and Co should head for friendlier climes. Take the jobs and tax revenue with them.
Texas would be good.
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Last month??? Ummmm, okaaaay.
And did those big bad gun makers comply?
They DIDN’T? For shame, gun makers.
Gays against Guns? Is it the same group called NAMBLA Against Guns? Morons...
I think Drudge had a story claiming 45 million people had died of AIDs since it first showed up in the gay community. Only 60 million died in WW II so how is an AR 15 more dangerous than their lifestyle?
[Gays Against Guns — an LGTBQ gun control group founded in the aftermath of the Orlando shooting]
Deep irony here if you look for it.
—aside from the rest of your post—Alex Sturm has been dead since 1951—
“Alex Sturm has been dead since 1951—”
Still got to get in his thing on the subject. He believed only cops should have the serious hardware.
Gays Against Guns support Muslims with Guns
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