"I never meant for simple civilians to have my 20 or 30 round magazines or my folding stock." ~ Bill Ruger
"I see nothing wrong with waiting periods." ~ Bill Ruger
It seems wrong to give this guy's company your very first or last gun business.
Bill Ruger is dead. The person who took over has ignored what Bill Ruger has done and has begun to make guns people want.
A highly opinionated and sometimes irascible man, Ruger had little interest in what he saw as an American red herring–zealous gun control. "The people who are demanding more laws to control guns should instead be demanding more laws to control thugs," he once said. He lauded the right of millions of Americans who live in semi-developed or rural areas to defend themselves, a concept lost on (sub)urbanites trained to dial 911. More to the point, he declared, "The [Constitution] says what it says. ‘The right to bear arms shall not be infringed.’ If you can’t live with that, then you shouldn’t be trying to be an American citizen."
Amusingly, since Ruger died and the new management team took over, they’re now making more and more and more ‘evil’ weapons that ol’ Bill would not have approved of. They ship their new AR-15 variant with 30 rounders and are cranking out 25s for their .22s. The AR-15 variant isn’t even ban-state neutered.
It should also be noted that many of those quotes were an attempt by Ruger to get the government to either 1) handicap his competition, because at a time when his competition had 17 and 19 round flush fitting mags, Ruger pistols could only hold 15 at best and he couldn’t figure out any way to fix that, or 2) keep the government from banning his baby, the Mini-14 ‘Ranch Rifle’.
Ruger’s support for a magazine ban was originally ‘no more than 15’ because of the aforementioned inability to make a pistol that carried more than 15. But, like all such quislings, he got stabbed in the back by the people he collaborated with - with the 10 round ban restriction.
Ruger’s testimony on the 20/30 round mags and the folding stock was an attempt to keep the Mini-14 off the ban list, because that was his baby. He would do anything to keep it from being outright banned - and did.
Fortunately, as I said, he’s dead now and the modern Ruger company management doesn’t have their heads up their rectums.