[Shooter 2.5]

I am so tired of hearing about this Smith and Wesson stuff. Who here thinks that S&W actively wanted to be sued? It's the same as if someone broke into your house and demanded money. Did the former owners handle it badly? Yes, they're aren't heroes by any means. Now there is a group of new owners who had nothing to do with the old agreement. They bought the company at bargain basement prices and I'm sure they would rather the old agreement went away.

It's the governemt that should bury the agreement. I wonder how many people have written their reps to dissolve the agreement. Honestly, I haven't and should.

[Space Wrangler]

The former owners did more than handle it badly. They turned traitor against the American gun buying public, or better known to them as their customers. The AZ company bouth S&W for a song, and is now trying to rehabilitate the image. I know some will forever be burned on S&W, but I see no reason not to support the company. As Flashbunny pointed out, they are still legally bound by the HUD agreement, but have vowed to fight it if it's ever brought up again. I don't have a problem with that, and I feel content to sit back and watch what they do if and when the HUD agreement ever comes back. The years they will have spent bringing S&W back into the fold amongst the gun buying public can be erased in a day if they make the wrong move regarding the HUD agreement, and likewise, the same can be said for ANY other gun maker out there. I'll give S&W another chance. I see no good at all in the company ceasing to exist.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Now there is a group of new owners who had nothing to do with the old agreement."

They have PLENTY to do with it. They were essentially complicit in trying to get the old owners lots of money, with the expectation that WE would cave in given an ownership change. The company is forever tainted, because those who own it paid the evil ones handsomely.

It might not seem "fair", but if we give in now (or ever), our future boycotts will have no teeth, since future offenders can always get their money out by selling to a "different" buyer.

I want future bussinesses contemplating selling out citizen rights to see BANKRUPTCY and personal financial ruin as their only future, if WE decide to make it so.