Posted on 06/26/2022 1:14:58 PM PDT by ShadowAce
Like many businesses, America’s gun manufacturers are feeling the deleterious effects of Bidenflation. Gun manufacturers, however, are additionally subject to the left’s ire and misplaced wrath over “gun violence.” After most horrific shooting tragedies, that wrath comes with the inevitably hysterical demands to ban “assault” guns and add even more stringent federal regulations on gun ownership while simultaneously vilifying all gun owners along with the entire gun industry and its workers.
At long last, one American gun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson, has had enough. Smith & Wesson — one of America’s oldest gun manufacturers since 1852 — is hitting back against the left’s gun hysteria and villainization in no uncertain terms.
This is who we are.
From the very beginning and every workday since and every shift and every individual effort we carry a common purpose, a common cause, passed down to us and preserved by a shared responsibility knowing behind every product we build is your faith in us.
It’s a duty we proudly honor to continually improve, innovate, and deliver for your right to defend, protect, and thrive. Knowing these values and our way of life provides strength and the confidence to secure what matters most to you.
Dedicated to the craft of gun making. Dedicated to your freedom. Quality, security, and the promise of this great country.
Smith & Wesson. Empowering Americans.
WATCH the Smith & Wesson “Who We Are” video in its entirety below or here:
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Back in the Clinton years S&W buckled and started to work with Clinton. Most others resisted, S&W was blackballed by Freeper types and other such people until bankruptcy.
You may go bankrupt, but don't do it working with the enemy. People that already owned S&W guns sold them because they couldn't let other people see they owned one. Needless to say new buyers had other choices and chose them instead of S&W.
https://www.businessinsider.com/smith-and-wesson-almost-went-out-of-business-trying-to-do-the-right-thing-2013-1
This is a start to understand why the boycott. There is plenty more.
This is just one lesson among many that CEO's seem to forget now and then. Watch what is happening to Disney right now. They are bragging about how woke they are as the profits get smaller and smaller.
Try to imagine a gun company agreeing to some compromise with Biden right now,....Then imagine an agreement with Trump. Biden puts a stain on a company that can't be scrubbed out.
“Maybe someone needs an M&P. Possibly a lung popping 9mm. 👍😃”
Maybe someone already has met and surpassed your suggestion!
I think .22 Long Rifle is "a lung popping" round; 9mm is (according to "Short Bus Joe") more of a lung BLOWING round...
;>)
How about government for sending our kids to war?
Joe said it would blow a lung completely out of a body.
My 686 is a wheel gun!
Yep, but they changed nonetheless.
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“A few days after Smith & Wesson announced its agreement with the federal government, Glock Inc. announced it was considering joining the settlement.”
-—Avi Selk, Washington Post, “A gunmaker once tried to reform itself. The NRA nearly destroyed it.” February 27, 2018
“A few days after Smith & Wesson announced its agreement with the federal government, Glock Inc. announced it was considering joining the settlement.”
-—Avi Selk, Washington Post, “A gunmaker once tried to reform itself. The NRA nearly destroyed it.” February 27, 2018
The best way to address the firepower concern is therefore not to try to outlaw or license many millions of older and perfectly legitimate firearms (which would be a licensing effort of staggering proportions) but to prohibit the possession of high capacity magazines. By a simple, complete and unequivocal ban on large capacity magazines, all the difficulty of defining 'assault rifle' and 'semi-automatic rifles' is eliminated. The large capacity magazine itself, separate or attached to the firearm, becomes the prohibited item. A single amendment to Federal firearms laws could effectively implement these objectives.William B. Ruger
Here’s what happened.
There was no bankruptcy. You guys are thinking of Remington. After the acquisition, Smith & Wesson hired some new legal counsel, a new marketing firm, etc.
At the time, I was working for some of the lawyers who were hired as “new legal counsel.” We reviewed the agreement that had been made at the end of the Clinton Administration. It wasn’t enforceable. We got expert opinions from two different contract lawyers. They both said the same thing.
If there had been Democrats in the White House at the time, they could have cost S&W millions in legal fees. “If you can’t convict them, bankrupt them.” That’s what they did to Michael Flynn.
But we had Republicans in the White House. George W. Bush, bless his heart. So we got away with terminating it.
They had already re-engineered their semi-auto rifles to be lever action, just in case.
Anything the Washington Post said is suspect. They became virulent anti-gun back in the 1960s after JFK was murdered.
You should see some of Herblock’s anti-gun cartoons of that time . Some are so anti-NRA that they order on defamation.
Hey, you can give an 18 yr old a rifle and send him to a foreign country to kill, be killed but when he returns to the US, tell him give back that rifle because you are not 21.
IIRC, Smith and Wesson is moving their headquarters out of liberal New England down here to eastern Tennessee. It was big news a few months ago, but I haven’t heard much about it lately.
Might I say there are prolly lots of potential finger extensions available with all the conversion surgeries?
But after thinking this through I won’t give it a name.
I gotta plead guilty on this one.
I really like Bill’s #1s. Last I heard the #1 operation has been shuttered.
Like the idea that my unsubmerged guns were made by people who care.
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