To: GovernmentShrinker
Doesn't anybody run pre-employment backgound checks anymore?He paid his debt to society and turned his life around. Screw the Brady Bunch.
They haven't got a fraction of the gumption, drive and sheer will this guy has.
We want prisoners rehabilitated and return to society as functional, productive members. What message are we sending to those currently incarcerated and the ex-cons when we tell them they can't, they shouldn't even try and pick themselves up by their own bootstraps, because no matter - they'll always be cons.
This guy is a role model, IMO.
6 posted on
02/27/2004 8:46:31 AM PST by
TomServo
("What a day. I invented Gainesburgers and I didn't even mean to!")
To: TomServo
I'm all in favor of rehabilitated criminals getting the opportunity to become productive citizens. But installing a guy with this kind of history as Chairman of Smith & Wesson is ludicrous. It's like putting a rehabiliated child abuser at the helm of the Boy Scouts of America. Looks bad, and can only harm the organization. And besides, if he was really rehabilitated he should have disclosed his background to S&W before they made him Chairman -- his failure to do so is clear proof that he wasn't really committed to advancing the company's interests.
To: TomServo
--and furthermore, this was out on the newswires two weeks ago--why did it suddenly start showing up now? It clearly stated then that the guy didn't personally own or even touch any firearms (in observance of the law)---and that he got there-to S&W-- through the company that bought them---
To: TomServo
He paid his debt to society and turned his life around. Screw the Brady Bunch.
They haven't got a fraction of the gumption, drive and sheer will this guy has. True, but besides the point.
Federal Law has always denied convicted felons the right to own firearms, or to have a dealers or manufacturers license or to be an officer in any corp that holds one.
Otherwise convicted felons could use a FFL or Manufacturers License (actually a Tax Stamp) to sidestep the prohibition on Felons owning firearms.
He should have aplied for a pardon if he wanted to enter this business.
If he has enough stroke to become an officer or board member of S&W, he has enough stroke to get one.
So9
To: TomServo
"This guy is a role model"
No sorry, convicted felons aren't by law allowed to own or possess firearms.
19 posted on
02/27/2004 11:29:50 PM PST by
optik_b
(follow the money)
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