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Faith-Based Anti-Gun Coalition Formed to Take Down a Gun Manufacturer...From The Inside Out
townhall.com ^ | 9/2/2018 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 09/02/2018 8:19:24 AM PDT by rktman

A group of 11 Catholic groups came together to purchase stock in Smith & Wesson. The group purchased 200 shares, the minimum number required to for shareholders to demand reports from the company. Now, they want the gun manufacturer to provide a report that details what the company is doing to promote "gun safety measures" and "produce safer gun and gun products."

According to an SEC filing, which is submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), here's what the group wants to see from Smith & Wesson:

Shareholders request the Board of Directors issue a report by February 8, 2019, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, on the company’s activities related to gun safety measures and the mitigation of harm associated with gun products, including the following (emphasis mine):

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1a; 2a; banglist; catholic; kaba; smithwesson; sw
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To: rktman

Before these groups start demanding a company do as they say....shouldn’t they clean up their own house first?


21 posted on 09/02/2018 8:35:14 AM PDT by yoe
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To: rktman

Trying to take the focus off the perversion and crime in their ranks by doing this. Sounds like a bunch of Democrats.....same M.O.....


22 posted on 09/02/2018 8:35:19 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: rktman

Because of left-wing crap like this is why I did a # walkaway from the catholic “church” in 1980’s when I lived in Southern California.

I had it with so-called cardinal Roger Mahoney appearing on TV and telling people to vote for democrats, their support of open borders, gun-grabbing, punishing the successful, etc. etc.

When CW II finally goes hot, these “11 catholic groups” better hope they won’t be staring down the wrong end of a gun.


23 posted on 09/02/2018 8:35:41 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Washington is NOT a swamp.....It's a cesspool!)
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To: rktman
Yah,sure...”Catholics” like the Kennedys and the Pelosis.IIRC there's a name for such “Catholics” but it slips my mind at the moment.
24 posted on 09/02/2018 8:36:03 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Clarancebeaks

catholic
[kath-uh-lik, kath-lik]

adjective

1) broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having sympathies with all; broad-minded; liberal.


25 posted on 09/02/2018 8:36:24 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Really like that photo. What the libs did to the nuns is a real crime.


26 posted on 09/02/2018 8:37:07 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: Mariner
"...provide a report that details what the company is doing to promote "gun safety measures" and "produce safer gun and gun products."

S&W should just drop them a note saying "we don't do this kind of chit".

27 posted on 09/02/2018 8:38:02 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: rktman

These are the Social Justice Catholics - not every Catholic Church is the same. They are supposed to be but (like ignoring border laws and marijuana laws) some priests and bishops just go their own way because nobody’s going to stop them. My understanding is that today’s Pope is one of these Social Justice Catholics. I expect another mass exodus from the Church. (pun intended.)


28 posted on 09/02/2018 8:38:40 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: rktman

Too bad they do not support gun safety groups like the NRA to teach safety. I had NRA hunters safety in High Schools for 2 years.


29 posted on 09/02/2018 8:40:19 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: rktman

Up to their asses in alliGAYtors and they’re bitching about S&W.


30 posted on 09/02/2018 8:42:51 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: Chewbarkah

>> Smith & Wesson should buy 200 shares in the Catholic Church and demand a detailed report...

Waste of time - the upper management all carry Vatican (NOT U.S.) passports and have diplomatic immunity, no matter where they were born or raised.


31 posted on 09/02/2018 8:47:46 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: rktman
It's "American Outdoor Brands Corporation" now.

Also, like the Pope, they should be worried about the harm caused by pervert priests' guns than by Smith and Wesson firearms. The priests are supposed to be under the control of the Catholic Church.


32 posted on 09/02/2018 8:48:56 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: rktman

“Found some pics here”

Thanks. The man has got some guns.


33 posted on 09/02/2018 8:59:38 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: \/\/ayne

>> These are the Social Justice Catholics ...

Bingo! The same groups of do-gooder rats that spend their nights scurrying around our southern border with Mexico, hoping to screw up the Border Patrol’s interceptions of illegals.

Wanna do some good, you confusers of social-justice with social-ism? Our goddaughter’s uncle is a Jesuit priest in Nicaragua. He’s on a hit list. Go down and help him.


34 posted on 09/02/2018 8:59:39 AM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: rktman; All

I don’t have time to research all of these groups, but here’s some info on one of them, the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia.

It looks like this is yet another activity by another group of the far-left who have infiltrated the Church during the past decades.

Just as the priesthood has been infiltrated by men with an agenda, so have many of the religious orders of nuns been taken over by women with an agenda.

Here are a few links to info on the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, and it doesn’t appear that devotion to Christ or traditional Catholic beliefs is their focus.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/business/sisters-of-st-francis-the-quiet-shareholder-activists.html

http://fore.yale.edu/religion/christianity/projects/sisters_francis/

https://www.fundsforngos.org/human-rights-2/sisters-st-francis-philadelphia-inviting-organisations-social-justice-grant-fund-program/

They’re just another group of eco-activists.

Also, I’d like to mention that St. Francis of Assisi is often used by the far-left as an example of putting the earth first. (Why did our current antipope choose this name?) This is incorrect and misleading to those who haven’t studied Francis.


35 posted on 09/02/2018 9:00:09 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the SEALs of Extortion 17 - and God Bless The United States of America.)
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To: rktman

Posting list of groups so folks will know what groups NOT to support with donations:

• Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, U.S.-Ontario Province
• Adrian Dominican Sisters
• Catholic Health Initiatives
• Congregation of St. Joseph
• Daughters of Charity, Province of St Louise
• Mercy Health
• Mercy Investment Services
• Sisters of Bon Secours, USA
• Sisters of Providence, Mother Joseph Province
• Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
• Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet - St. Louis Province


36 posted on 09/02/2018 9:05:36 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: rktman
In 2018, Vatican City has a reported population of 801. For security purposes, Vatican City has a wall, a gendarmerie consisting of 130 armed police, and about 110-125 Swiss Guards, whose primary job is to protect the pope. Thus, Vatican City has arguably the highest ratio of law enforcement to population in the entire world (nearly one-to-three).

It's as if Mayberry had 200 cops instead of just Andy and Barney.
37 posted on 09/02/2018 9:07:40 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: rktman
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;

the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.

The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Government is an evil - and handguns to enforce the right to life of their owners are, too. The Constitution says that the federal government is necessary - and that private citizens exercise their own judgement as to the necessity of keeping and bearing arms.
38 posted on 09/02/2018 9:09:06 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: rktman

200 shares
$14 per share
$2,800 total price

11 groups
$254 per group


39 posted on 09/02/2018 9:11:12 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: rktman
The pics of the armory at the Vatican are pretty impressive. Someone posted them a long time ago someplace.

Happy Easter: Guns of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard, the world’s oldest continuously serving military unit


40 posted on 09/02/2018 9:12:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It rubs the rainbow on it's skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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