Posted on 03/24/2026 7:46:39 PM PDT by PROCON
A federal judge in Nevada dismissed a lawsuit by a group of nuns that claimed Smith & Wesson violated its fiduciary duty to shareholders by making and selling AR-15s.
On May 7, 2024, Breitbart News reported a similar dismissal in Nevada’s Clark County District Court, after plaintiffs including the Adrian Dominican Sisters, Sisters of Bon Secours USA, Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, and Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus & Mary, filed suit. They filed a suit claiming that the defendants, who are Smith & Wesson board members and the company’s senior management team, “knowingly allowed the Company to become exposed to significant liability for intentionally violating federal, state, and local laws through its manufacturing, marketing, and sales of AR-15 style rifles and similar semiautomatic firearms.”
Their suit was dismissed.
Now it is 2026 ,and another lawsuit, and it was dismissed again.
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I’m picturing those nuns.
I bet they look nothing like nuns - no habits, i.e. wearing street clothes, etc.
In other words, Democrat liberal nuns.
The Penguin Gang.
LOL I know your comment was all in good pun!
There is no law that prohibits the manufacture of AR-15’s.
What planet are they living on?
These so-called nuns should be required to pay Smith & Wesson’s legal fees.
That is the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Oh, that was bad.....
That said, someone needed to slap a copy of the Second Amendment in front of them and told them to forget it.
They may not have been flying, but they were definitely high.
Nuns with Guns!
He ought to stick them with the Defendants’ attorney fees for this nuisance lawsuit.
Yes, Adrian Dominican Sisters, Bon Secours, and SNJM travel closely with New Ways Ministry and had prominent representatives sign their “Catholic Call for LGBTQ Non-Discrimination”; Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia is active in AIDS ministry. These groups work with a left-wing coalition called the Interfaith Coalition for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) that promotes climate activism against corporations.
They need to stick to religious issues and keep their noses out of gun rights.
… It’s a hard “habit“ to break…
Back in my 1960s era Catholic school days… We had nicknames for our nuns..
Sister Helen Most Homicidal
Sister Mary Most Murderous
Sister Hercules ( mostly just “Herk” for short, and usually preceded by “Split! It’s Herk!”)
There were others, but those three stand out. I swear they hated children, male children in particular. The first one on the list loved to smack boys in the face in front of the class.
Left a hanger on me face one day; when I got home, my mother saw it and flipped out, charged up to the school and said “if you ever put a mark on him again, I’m gonna put a mark on you…”
Ma was a Philly girl… she was tough as nails, chuckle…
Make them pay the legal fees.
L
Are these the same nuns that want to become priests?
“BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager and Ruger’s largest investor, and Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, the two most important shareholder advisory firms in the United States, supported the resolution.”
Per Wiki
Shareholder activism
The Adrian Dominican Sisters led shareholder activism efforts, including in the areas of executive compensation, climate change, the rights of indigenous peoples, and gun control. Sister Judith Byron, OP is a member with the Adrian Dominican Sisters and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and serves as a consultant to the Adrian Dominican Sisters’ Portfolio Advisory Board and as director of The Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, a coalition of religious communities and health care systems.
The Adrian Dominican Sisters introduced shareholder resolutions asking firearms manufacturers American Outdoor Brands Corporation (the parent company of Smith & Wesson) and Sturm, Ruger & Co. and retailer Dick’s Sporting Goods to report to investors regarding the steps they are taking to reduce gun violence.
The Adrian Dominican Sisters purchased 200 shares of American Outdoor Brands Corporation (AOBC), the minimum holding needed to qualify to formally submit shareholder resolutions. American Outdoor Brands Corporation opposed the resolution. Investors approved the resolution. On February 8, 2019, American Outdoor Brands Corporation released a 20-page report, which said, in summary, “AOBC’s reputation among firearm buyers and Second Amendment supporters is more critical to the success of the Company and the enhancement of shareholder value than its reputation among industry detractors and special interest groups with a political agenda.”
The Adrian Dominican Sisters purchased $2000 worth of shares of Sturm, Ruger & Co. in order to qualify to formally submit shareholder resolutions. The resolution was co-filed by the Adrian Dominican Sisters and Catholic Health Initiatives. Ruger opposed the resolution. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager and Ruger’s largest investor, and Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, the two most important shareholder advisory firms in the United States, supported the resolution. At Ruger’s annual meeting on May 9, 2018, 69% of shareholders voted in favor and Ruger said they would heed the resolution. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence called the vote a “first-of-its-kind victory.”
The Adrian Dominican Sisters were among shareholders that helped influence retailer Dick’s Sporting Goods to stop selling AR-15 style rifles at its Field & Stream stores.
“Back in my 1960s era Catholic school days… We had nicknames for our nuns..” We did too, nuns are trained in terrorism I swear.
Re “… nuns are trained in terrorism I swear...”
I always crack up when I see “The Blues Brothers“ seen where they go back to see “the penguin“… And she beats the hell out of them with the yardstick and the pointer….
And to be fair… Some of them were very sweet ladies… But the psychotic ones, they gave the entire group a bad name.
We desperately need loser pays in this country.
How much money did the little sisters spend on lawyers that could have been used for things like helping the poor?
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