[Brad from Tennessee]

Statistically 62 percent of U.S. gun deaths result from suicide.

Most gun manufacturers are refusing to do business with New York State police agencies to demonstrate that the 2nd Ammendment is more important than government contracts.

[generally]

It was never about “the children”. It was always about control.

0vomit is/was easily distracted. He dances to the tune of his puppeteer. Other opportunities for more control and destruction of America came along, so he went with that. (Gay marriage, Iran nukes, flooding the country with illegals, race riots, .... )

[ImNotLying]

Wow....it took four NYT stooges to write this trash piece. Four brains combined and not an intelligent phrase in the whole article.

[Gaffer]

The freest company in this country is the one that does absolutely no business with the Federal Government.

We see what famous “Colt’s” dealings with the Federal government has wrought - virtual abandonment of the civilian market product line both in quantity and quality.

Now, with dwindling orders from government and competition from other AR platform manufacturers who build just a well and sell cheaper, they do not know what to do. This is true for a lot of the well-known others. (S&W, Springfield, Beretta USA, etc.). You just can’t slap a “Tactical” on the name and make it a quality firearm.

The one outlier from this in my experience/opinion is Ruger.

[demshateGod]

“purchases meant to ensure public safety”

But individuals shouldn’t be aloud to make purchases for personal safety? No. Of course not. Personal safety is a liberty thing.

[fieldmarshaldj]

We don’t need gun control, we need totalitarian control. Round them up and ship them to North Korea en masse.

[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.)

[Campion]

Remember when we were told (in the Clinton administration) that cheap imported AK's and SKS's from China were a terrible threat to public safety and their importation had to be banned?

So since criminals can't easily get cheap Chinese guns anymore, now it's expensive American guns the gun grabbers are going after.

The real objective is always and only to end civilian gun ownership.

All of those manufacturers know that the civilian market is bigger and more dependable than the government market, and all of them know that jumping into bed with the gun grabbers almost put Smith and Wesson out of business a few years ago.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

NYC should join the EU and stop pretending to be American.

[Red in Blue PA]

Some of the leading brands of handguns purchased by the government — Glock, Smith & Wesson, Sig Sauer, Beretta, Colt, Sturm, Ruger & Company — are also leading brands used in crimes.

Did these geniuses ever think that the guns which sell the most will also be stolen the most? That never occurred to them. Stupid beyond belief.