[Sooth2222]

"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."

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.)

[Brad from Tennessee]

[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.]

Government is also a notoriously slow paying customer.