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Smith & Wesson Rejects Push by Anti-Second Amendment Shareholders
The Daily Caller ^ | 10:26 PM 02/10/2019 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 02/10/2019 8:03:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The latest strategy of gun control activists is to force gun manufacturers “to consider their social impact” by buying stock in those companies and mobilizing shareholders to demand they study the concept.

The group called Adrian Dominican Sisters, led by a nun named Sister Judy Byron, is part of the Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investments, an anti-Second Amendment activist group. Their latest target was American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC), which owns Smith & Wesson. The company was forced to do a study, which was released late Friday, but the results likely won’t make the nuns happy.

In their report, AOBC defended itself against critics of the Second Amendment, writing, “Specific terms sometimes are used to craft a narrative in support of those agendas. For example, phrases such as ‘gun violence’ are used to create a perception that the presence of a gun, in itself, somehow creates the conditions for violence.”

Moreover, the report takes swipes at liberal groups trying to tarnish the company’s reputation and bottom line.

“The Company’s reputation as a strong defender of the Second Amendment is not worth risking for a vague goal of improving the Company’s reputation among non-customers or special interest groups with an anti-Second Amendment agenda,” the report reads.

AOBC is one of two firearm manufacturers the activists bought stock in for the expressed purpose of forcing a “dialogue with the companies about what they are doing to ensure the safety of children and communities whose lives may be at risk because of their products.”

One of the areas the activist nuns wanted addressed was the idea of “smart guns,” weapons that can only be fired by one user. AOBC called this “flawed technology” in the report, saying they would continue to monitor its development.

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1 posted on 02/10/2019 8:03:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Again, members of official Catholic church organizations are screwing up society for everyone else.

There was a reason Catholicism was banned in the early colonies.


2 posted on 02/10/2019 8:10:59 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Don’t tell Salvation that.


3 posted on 02/10/2019 8:12:34 PM PST by Fungi
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Buy stock in a company to be taken seriously in attempting to push policy that drives down market share for the product.

These people are insane.


4 posted on 02/10/2019 8:16:05 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

All they have to buy is one share and they get to go to the shareholder meeting.


5 posted on 02/10/2019 8:17:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Neither of unatic liberals who buy firearm manufacturer stock for political purposes,
nor those who who are aligned with them will never be satisfied until only criminals own guns & are completely free to terrorize the entire USA.
That is liberalism run amok as usual.


6 posted on 02/10/2019 8:18:28 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Would this be akin to an anti gun fanatic buying a lifetime membership in the NRA just so they can say not everyone that is a member likes guns?

As other posters have noted

THESE PEOPLE ARE NUTZ!!


7 posted on 02/10/2019 8:21:01 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: xrmusn

Actually these people are psychopaths. Very smart and devious. Devoid of morals and principles.


8 posted on 02/10/2019 8:28:42 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“The latest strategy of gun control activists is to force gun manufacturers “to consider their social impact” by buying stock in those companies and mobilizing shareholders to demand they study the concept.”

The sisters need “to consider their social impact” as part of today's Catholic Church. They have become part of the problem.

Maybe we should buy one share of the Catholic Church and begin to demand the demilitarization of the Vatican's arms room.

9 posted on 02/10/2019 8:30:11 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I bought a little of their stock before the 2016 election. I figured if Hillary got elected I’d at least make some money. Well I’m glad I didn’t buy more stock. It tanked. LOL


10 posted on 02/10/2019 8:30:22 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Sasparilla; All

“Gun control” and “gun safety” are fraudulent euphemisms for deliberate, knowing criminal facilitation and enablement. The vast majority of mass shootings were deliberately encouraged and enabled by “gun free” zones. The whole, vile thing is a pure evil communist, totalitarian movement explicitly designed to facilitates and enable a communist takeover of the United States along with its inevitably following starvation and mass murder. Now, in our hour of greatest need, we need the Second Amendment more than ever before.


11 posted on 02/10/2019 8:32:52 PM PST by libstripper
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To: jeffersondem

Maybe we should buy one share of the Catholic Church and begin to demand the demilitarization of the Vatican’s arms room.
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More important, we need the defrocking and total humiliation of Bergoglio, the pure evil, utterly vile, Islamist terrorist facilitating, anti-Catholic, communist, homosexual false “pope” and the total cleansing of the Church of his accomplices.


12 posted on 02/10/2019 8:37:25 PM PST by libstripper
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sister, this is the social impact of disarming a people.

I spit on anyone who proposes such a policy. No matter who they are.

13 posted on 02/10/2019 8:39:53 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hardy har har flippin har. They buy small amounts of stock. Their “forcing” a dialogue is submitting a shareholder proposal for the annual meeting Most of that stuff comes with a management recommendation of “against”.

Vast numbers of individual holders ignore their ballots. It’s highly unlikely they would ever get enough stock or holders to vote for their proposals to make a difference. The little nuns haven’t invented anything new.

The classic example of this sort of behavior is/was a woman who was notorious for buying the minimum amount of stock to be able to submit proposals. Ford was a favorite target of hers. Most boards of directors and institutional share holders regarded her as a nuisance.

This irritates me greatly.


14 posted on 02/10/2019 9:13:11 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: Fungi

The “Caucus” has been quiet lately.


15 posted on 02/10/2019 9:14:27 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Despised by the Despicable!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Unless they are going to disrupt the meeting. Otherwise it takes more than one share to submit proposals, even touchy-feely ones.

It reminds me of anti-smokers who screech about smokers and tell people how wonderful their Altria and Philip Morris stock is performing.


16 posted on 02/10/2019 9:17:38 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: libstripper

Where do we sign up and is it as expensive as Berkshire Hathaway stock?


17 posted on 02/10/2019 9:19:41 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: ConservativeMind

Catholics have been good enough to fight, bleed, and die for this country since the revolution.


18 posted on 02/10/2019 9:24:36 PM PST by Campion ((marine dad))
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To: ConservativeMind

I don’t know that Catholicism has anything to do with it, as much as radical progressives infiltrating all sorts of places they don’t belong.

As for Anti-2A shareholders, sell your shares and walk away.


19 posted on 02/10/2019 9:25:05 PM PST by qaz123
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have been hankering for a Model 649.


20 posted on 02/10/2019 9:45:14 PM PST by jospehm20
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