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As President Obama announces a set of reforms to deal with gun violence in America, the gun lobby is mobilizing to defeat it. The gun industry-controlled advocacy group, the National Rifle Association, has a new ad accusing the president of being of a "hypocrite" for having armed security for his own family.
Meanwhile, gun manufacturers like Strum, Ruger & Co. -- a Connecticut-based maker of rifles and pistols, and a major benefactor to the NRA, as I reported last month -- have stepped up to provide direct advocacy.
The New Hampshire Business Review reports today that Ruger is now asking its customers to contact lawmakers to fight reform. Ruger has launched an advocacy section of its website, which reads: "Given the forces assembling against us, merely relying upon lobbying efforts is insufficient. Law-abiding firearms owners must stand up and be heard."
The website provides a form letter to send to lawmakers, and other ways to spread the word. Already, at least one local gun club is promoting the gun company's message.
Typically, gun and ammunition companies prefer to hide behind ideological groups like the NRA to pursue lobbying campaigns. But the stakes are apparently too high this time around.
Read more: http://www.opednews.com/articles/Major-Gun-Company-Begins-A-by-Lee-Fang-130120-368.html
Fish man
(21 posts)The gun industry only cares about its profits and not about your children.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)The point of the NRA's insanity is that we look at them rather than gunmakers. Their decoy may have finally exploded.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)I think the NRA is so far from what it used to be as to be ridiculous.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)Awwwww. Poor widdle babies gonna go bwoke. Wah! Wah! Wah!
NickB79
(19,274 posts)Bill Ruger would be spinning in his grave right now. This is his quote from the late 1980's:
And shortly thereafter this was the press statement released by the Sporting Arms and Ammunitions Manufacturers Institute (SAAMI) in 1989:
"Semi-automatic firearms as such should not be the object of any legislative prohibition. It is actually the large magazine capacity, rather than the semi-automatic operation, which is the proper focus of this debate."
The sad thing is, I think it would have ultimately been a win/win for both the gun rights and gun control lobbies had this been passed then and we'd been done with it.