[G L Tirebiter]

Agreed -

The company was, I believe, 'taken private' by a group of execs. They reversed the kowtowing of the former European based multi-national corp. that made the infamous deal with the Clinton DoJ.

[Space Wrangler]

S&W was bought for a pittance by the Arizona company Safe-T-Loc, or something like that. I believe the purchase price was about 15-20% of what the British company (Thompson, IIRC) paid for S&W in the late 80's. Just goes to show you what selling out your own customers will do for your business. Gaston Glock told Clinton/Reno to go pound sand in a very public way, and his customer base rewarded him nicely.

[longtermmemmory]

does anyone have evidence or links of this?

[flashbunny]

The agreement still stands. They bought the company (still publicly traded under saf-t-lock, the parent company) and they bought the agreement.

They got the boston agreement scrapped, but are standing by the HUD agreement. Their excuse is that it's a republican administration now and it's not being enforced, but as soon as there's a democrat in power, do you think it will stay dead?

The agreement still lives, the boycott still lives.