boycott Colt

Boss Spearman

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I feel I must speak on this. I saw a Colt representative on the History Channel saying Colt feels compelled to develop the smart gun, for the safety of their customers.

The smart gun only allows its owner to fire it. No one else can. This technology to me is far worse than the Clinton deal S&W signed.
Yet, everyone brags on Colts and buys Colts, while ripping S&W or Ruger for their deals. How can gun owners sit by and allow Colt to do this, and continue to buy them? The Colt company is a traitor to American gun owners. I feel we must let them know if they pursue this smart gun nonsense we will not buy them.
I had to say something, because it deeply distresses me that people are still so loyal to Colt dispite this smart gun garbage.
 
I've had a passive boycott of Colt going on for years.

They don't have a single thing that I want.

Not even remotely interested in their products.
 
Now you've done it...

I don't buy Colt or S&W. Be prepared to be burnt to a crisp for your stance. After all, both Colt and S&W are American - no matter what they do or what deals they have yet to pull out of - they are American and those that are so brand loyal will now proceed to rationalize and burn you alive for being stupid, unpatriotic, and the lowest level of ignorant scum. Hey, wel know all Americans are always good, right? Like Bill Klinton, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, etc. I fail to see the logic that I should be loyal to someone/something simply because of geographical proximity.

I still will not buy Colt, nor will I buy S&W until they pull out of the Clinton deal. Let them both fail and others will not be so cavalier with our rights.

I'm with you, but we are few. If we keep shouting long enough maybe someone will listen.
 
Thanks. I'm prepared to be grilled. I just couldn't sit by any longer after hearing the junk the Colt rep. spewed on History Channel. It was something to this affect:

"Today's gun owners don't have the knowledge of firearms the previous generations had. Therefore, we at Colt feel compelled for the safety of our customers, to develop the smart gun."

I was appalled, quite frankly.
 
I have never purchased a colt. Never cared to.

However, I have been given several colts that I cherish. Not because they are Colts, but that they are family heirlooms.

btw: I carry German. I feel my H&K is the best firearm for my personal needs. Buying the best product is a part of free capitalism, the bedrock of america. IMHO.
 
I don't like Colt.


But why are you boycotting a product that isn't even being sold? Wouldn't the best boycott be of the actual smart gun? Wouldn't that send the clearest message?


Nice to hear that there isn't a single US made handgun line that is acceptable for purchase anymore. :(
 
It IS a sad state, isn't it Handy?

But we still have Freedom arms, North American Arms, Springfield, Dan Wesson and a few others who haven't PO'd everyone... Er - have they?

I too ride along in Mike's boat though more through a refusal to overpay based on name brand recognition than anything else - extends to several other brands besides Colt... :rolleyes:
 
Yorec,

I don't deny that there are other US made guns (though I think calling SA US made is pushing it), but only a very few companies off what I'd call a line of pistols, rather than just variations on one design.

Oh, and we have to boycott Kahr due to Justin Moon's father. :rolleyes:



What I think Boss and others are missing is that a boycott is largely a punishment and does little to change a companies behavior. The most it can really do is bankrupt the company. They are also ineffective - S&W is doing fine, boycotting Ruger never got off the ground.

If you want to change the law, you don't boycott voting. In a similar vien, if you don't like what Colt says it is developing, let them know directly. A sales boycott doesn't send a clear message.
 
I have two questions...

1.) What exactly was said on the program?

2.) How is the technology bad?

I don't own any Colts, never have and most likely never will. I just don't see the problem with the technology, unless Colt decides to join forces with the likes of HCI and VPC (wouldn't that be an interesting combination? :barf: ) to push legislation mandating thier technology on firearms.
 
"Oh, and we have to boycott Kahr due to Justin Moon's father."

Nice try, but wrong.

Justin Moon's father has no connection to Kahr Arms.
 
What do you mean "Nice try"? Did you miss the :rolleyes: ?

I'm just repeating the fluffy-headed statements of some other boycotts I've come across.
 
Funny, seemed like you had a very concrete interpretation of my post.


But since you seem unclear on what type of person I am, I don't think the religious affiliations people have are good reasons to damage their business or damn their product. I don't care if Moon is... whatever, or Front Site is Scientologist, or Browning was Mormon. It is unAmerican to attack anyone for that.
 
Agreed Handy, but it is not unamerican at all to decide that a company who is pushing for smart gun technology (an unproven an ill though out concept) will not get my money. I'd rather give it to the germans who produce something I want at a price reflective of the product's value and which doesn't impinge upon my rights or future ability to defend myself... No smilies - the situation sucks.
 
boycotting only makes the boycotter feel good about 'standing up for something'. its akin to standing on a street corner waving a placard that reads 'Duct tape nukes to baby whales to swim through bloody oil to attack china and free tibet for jesus!' anyone who sees you with that sign is going to ignore you. they will forget your movement 5 seconds after you are out of sight.

if you want a manufacturer to change their practices or mantra, they must be made aware that consumers are displeased. simply not buying their products doesnt send the message clearly.

your intent is to try and hit them 'where it hurts'. well supposedly s&w and ruger have been 'boycotted', but it hasnt stopped them from marketing new products.

but then you gotta realize that there are consumers out there (much like myself) that care not one whit about the politics of a manufacturer. i bought a colt AR instead of a bushie because i dont care about colts policies of not marketing so-called assault rifles to the general public, or about their decision to machine their lowers to not allow the trigger group to be modified to FA. that means absolutely nothing to me.

do you know what your proposed boycott will wind up doing? working in favor of colts diehard customers that wait patiently for their orders to be filled. so you all will likely wind up being thanked by other gunowners in the long run, but for reasons you did not originally intend.
 
I'd make a wild guess that Handy's not an Economics professor! Just for the record, S&W got their butts handed to them by THEIR boycott. Let's not partake in revisionism. (Anybody remember what happened to the "New" Coke?) The analogy of boycotting products to boycotting voting was fallacious.
 
This is very old news.
The History Channel story was made years ago.

The Colt Smart Gun was dead on arrival, and only a few prototypes were ever made.

In other words, you're calling for a boycott over a product that never was and happened years ago, under old management who are no longer even employed by Colt.
 
As noted, that show, and the info presented, is years old. The people shown in the Colt segment, Joe Cartabona, et al., are, I believe, long gone from Colt. The "smart gun" program was actually funded in part by the government; Colt got a big chunk of change to do research, and Colt has done that kind of stuff - interacting with government agencies, to develop guns that they want (see M1911, M1917, BAR, etc.) - for 100 years.
Smith & Wesson cannot "pull out" of the deal they made with the devil, uh, President Clinton. The Bush administration has not forced Smith & Wesson to comply, but when W is gone, I'm sure the next administration will be happy to put the screws to them, again.
Me, I prefer Colt and S&W products to all others, and will continue to buy them. Other than cars, the Germans (or Austrians, or Czechs, or . . .) don't make much of anything I'm interested in.
 
Colt is not interested in selling firearms to Joe Citizen anyway. I bought my last one in 1998. The lawyers were hounding them at that time and I thought I would help them stand up for my rights. :barf:
 
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