Paper Thin Hit-Piece

Man you have to be amazed by the level of ironic hypocrisy in this piece:

So a bunch of anti-freedom leftists had decided to treat gun makers different than any other company. Sue them for the misuse of their product. Smith and Wesson, knowing that even if they won in the courts they would be out MILLIONS in lawyer and court fees came crawling to the politicians to get a sweetheart deal to save their own necks.

Now compare this with Halliburton, with Bank of America, Amtrak, Wall Street trading firms, General Motors, or Oil Companies. Hell Amtrak gets a pass too, since “Progressives” love mass transit, but the others are often looked at as “Greedy Corporations” selling out the American people to line their own pockets. Yet a Gun company working to undermine the 2nd Amendment and the American people to line their own pockets is “Good”.

Then there’s the talk of the S&W Boycott. First up, we always hear about how the NRA is a “Paper Tiger” that makes a lot of noise but isn’t a REAL threat, and how damn near all NRA members support the type of crap S&W caved to.

Still while the NRA deserves real credit for getting the word out on Smith and Wesson’s backroom dealings with the anti-gun forces, honestly I can’t see the NRA as being the sole instrument of this highly successful boycott. If ONLY NRA members (hell even active and LAPSED members) all decided that S&W was persona-non-grata, but the rest of the nation kept on with their merry way, S&W would probably be HURT by this, but it wouldn’t be the near-fatal blow dealt to them.

Hell I’m a HUGE fan of their guns, and I own quite a few, still I have only bought ONE single S&W firearm new, all the others have been from the used market or private sales. If I decided Smiths were Junk tomorrow, they wouldn’t notice, hell they don’t notice now that I love and carry their guns!

This was a company doing an underhanded and dastardly thing for selfish reasons that hurt EVERY American. Further if S&W’s capitulation went off without an answer from the American people, this would have lead to further blackmails by anti-rights politicians and their teams of lawyers to demand MORE from both S&W AND every other gun company or importer in the United States.

Gives you a second thought on why gun makers are so supportive of the NRA, their actions did them a HUGE favor, why wouldn’t they want to make sure the NRA is robust, strong, and around for future years?

Also I gotta love that twinge of mock-sadness from Dennis Hennigan. Yeah in reality he’s BUMMED that S&W didn’t go the way of Harrington & Richardson. He was a vice-president for a group called “Handgun Control Inc” (later the Brady Campaign) what do you think his ideal plans for companies that make handguns would be?

Of course also it must be noted all the eerie music, and the oddly dubbed reading of Wayne LaPierre’s writing, there wasn’t a single person, even an anti-gun person playing the Devil’s Advocate, talking about why the NRA and the American People might have acted this way.

Still from what I hear about this entire show from anti-gunners who watched it was the bottom line of even this anti-gun show was “The NRA will crush you!” Heh always good to see that.

Plus we’ve seen similar boycotts from the anti-gun side….yeah they didn’t work out so well.

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4 Responses to Paper Thin Hit-Piece

  1. I believe that you’ll find that the NRA didn’t start the boycott. They just did what they always do and ran to the front of the parade everyone else was having.

  2. Old 1811 says:

    In 2006 I spoke with a Smith rep who was showing the new M&P line at the multi-agency academy where I was teaching. I mentioned the 2000 boycott and said I was sympathetic to Smith: Who do you complain to when you’re being blackmailed by the government? He told me that Smith was also being blackmailed by their parent company, a British plumbing maker: Do what Cuomo wants or we will shut the doors.
    I’m glad that Smith is now owned by an American company.

    • Weerd Beard says:

      I listened to a talk by a S&W Rep (maybe even the same guy) don’t remember the year, but it was during that short-lived period when Smith was getting back into Shotguns, and had just built a factory in Turkey. (from a little reading it must have been the same time as you) It was at a GOAL annual meeting, and he openly talked about the dark days of the boycott.

      He spoke surprisingly freely given that he was there representing the company, on how terrible the former Brit owners were, and how awful it was working for the company at that time.

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