Ruger's ugly embossed barrel warning WHY?

I'm flabbergasted as to how this thread's gone from a company trying to limit liability to unions are the scourge of America. How many more posts until religion enters the fray?
 
I understand your point(s), but it doesn't bother me. In 100, 200 yrs that actually might be pretty cool when they're relics too...just sayin':)
 
I own a couple of Ruger handguns, and the lawyer speak on the barrel/slide doesn't bother me at all. They do what I bought them to do at a reasonable price. There are many fine manufacturers out there to choose from. God bless America!

I also find the attack on unions in general to be offensive. Whether I support them or not isn't the issue. It is an issue that has nothing to do with the topic, and little to do with firearms. I love a good political or religious debate, but have found that the interwebz is a poor place for intelligent, spirited discussion of these subjects.
 
I think the warnings are inadequate. You can still kill yourself if you aren't careful. Further, there are an increasingly number of Spanish speaking people so we need a Spanish version as well.

:rolleyes:
 
Blue Train I live in a very German part of the country. My little old wife is of German descent. I think Germans should come with written warnings...:p
 
The current amount of lawyerspeak on their barrels doesn't bother me quite yet, but I'll definitely be complaining when they start adding "THIS END TOWARD TARGET" near the muzzle.
 
Smith and Wesson puts a similar warning on the sides of their 1911s. What's worse is that they use a contrasting color lettering so that it really stands out on the slide. Makes me ill.
 
"So why don't guns from Germany come with warnings?"

Because the lawsuits in the U.S. didn't involve foreign companies. Ruger was faced with a choice - settle the case and comply with the court order for a warning on the guns, or watch the penalties drive the company into bankruptcy.

What would the people who decry the "vandalism" of firearms have done? If Ruger had gone under, would we be better off because they stood up for unmarked guns?

Jim
 
Agree with Jim

It looks like some of us are sensitive about what our gun manufacturers have endured. I don't like it, and in fact the whole climate in our country (the only place I know anything about) has become toxic to freedom.

Years ago in an OSHA training seminar, the handles on lawn mowers that have to be held or the motor dies came up. What happened (as all of you probably know) was a guy in California started his friggin lawn mower in the basement, and decided to carry the darn thing up the stairs while it was running. Now just how stupid can one get? Anyway, this genius injured his lil hands, and an ambulance chaser found him and sued the manufacturer and the guy and his lawyer got rich off the deal. Evidently the courts thought that manufacturers needed to take into account the less intelligent end users, so now lawn mowers all are fitted with that inconvenient GD handle. I agree with one of the prvious posts, it will probably get way more ridiculous berfore the lawyers have enough money. As one sage said on stage: "Ya can't fix stupid."
 
The explanation is easy. Gun snobs don't buy Rugers.
Rugers market is upper middle class and people who want long term utility, not perfect bluing. People who want it at a value. Why did they cut production of almost all their blued revolvers when S&W still offers many? People who want the look shop elsewhere.

The bean counters and lawyers had a meeting and produced a report:
"Without this disclaimer on the barrel we need to raise prices $50 per gun to offset lawsuit costs."
Ruger said "mar the barrel"
S&W stole a copy of the report and said "Raise it $50"
 
I have always considered the warning to be ugly, and detracting greatly from the aesthetics of ANY gun. I heartily thank Ruger for now putting it under the barrel, where we have to TRY to look for it. My only suggestion would be to make it even SMALLER.
 
Doesn't this warning presuppose that people are going to read the barrel? The barrel says "read the manual", but does the manual also say "read the barrel"?

Anyone who needs a warning that a firearm is dangerous shouldn't be let out into society without at least 2 people to take care of them and stop them sticking forks and other assorted cutlery in live electrical sockets and from putting their hands in fire????

What next, point this end towards target, things that go bang go in here, pull this bit to make it go boom?

Lawyers and bureaucrats strike again!!! Bunch of overpaid, under-worked B@#$@$#s who wouldn't know what a real job was if it jumped up and bit them on the a**!!!! :mad:

Cheers
G
 
9mm said:
So you know guns are dangerous.:rolleyes:
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I don't know this at all. Not a single one of my guns has ever discharged itself without my, or another user's, help. I've never seen them meeting at night to plot to overthrow my gun locker either.

For the most part they're just very good high quality rock chuckers that are modern descendant of throwing stones at an opponent. They just throw .30 cal FMJ stones really fast. (Or 9mm, or whatever.)

I saw the rolly eyes, so I know it was a joke. But I still react. Some of my cousins honestly believe a gun dreams about murdering people like it has a mind of its own I think.
 
Warnings on barrels in Spanish... I hadn't thought about that. Maybe the Administrator of this Forum should delete this thread before some lawyer reads it and gets the idea :)

I was wondering if maybe we should vet lawyers from TFL but then I remembered having to answer a math question as part of the sign-up; something like "if x+y=5 and x=3, what is y?"... That test should be enough to eliminate any lawyer!
 
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