S&W Gets Another Lesson in "Cooperating" with Clinton

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Mass. gun maker takes Senate hit

World News briefs
Thursday, July 20, 2000

WASHINGTON - A Senate panel dealt a blow to Smith & Wesson, the giant Springfield, Mass., gun maker that promised last March to adopt gun-safety measures.

A subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to prohibit the government from giving a preference to Smith & Wesson when purchasing arms for federal law enforcement officers. Under a pact reached with the Clinton administration last March, Smith & Wesson agreed to begin including childproof locks on its guns, require its dealers to conduct background checks on purchasers and take other safety steps. In exchange, the federal government - and a group of states and communities - agreed to drop lawsuits against the company and refrain from filing new ones.
 
Hmm. I wonder if that will void the agreement. (?)

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Either you believe in the Second Amendment or you don't.
Stick it to 'em! RKBA!
 
Do you mean to say that a committee of the congress actually voted to support the idea of open, competitive bids for public purchases, how novel an idea.
 
Congress has always allowed anyone to bid openly and fairly on any govt. contract.

But, whoever makes it the cheapest ALWAYS wins.

The only possible exception is that the military is buying small numbers of H&K USP's and Sig Sauer pistols for special units and law enforcement.

What movie did that line come from anyway, "Remember the rifle you are using was brought to you by the lowest bidder."

I remember hearing my gunny tell me that "the rope you are lowering yourself down this 300 foot sheer granite cliff face, was brought to you by the lowest bidder :D!"

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Happiness is a smoking gun, and a dead criminal!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DOCSpanky:

I remember hearing my gunny tell me that "the rope you are lowering yourself down this 300 foot sheer granite cliff face, was brought to you by the lowest bidder :D!"

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I am good friends with the guys that put together the Mountaineering Equipment for US armed forces. I've climbed ice many a day on borrowed equipment from those guys. I have complete and utter faith in their ability to select good equipment at the right price. :)

BTW- i think the movie was, "Full Metal Jacket"... or "Platoon" and was referenced to the M16.



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~USP

"[Even if there would be] few tears shed if and when the Second Amendment is held to guarantee nothing more than the state National Guard, this would simply show that the Founders were right when they feared that some future generation might wish to abandon liberties that they considered essential, and so sought to protect those liberties in a Bill of Rights. We may tolerate the abridgement of property rights and the elimination of a right to bear arms; but we should not pretend that these are not reductions of rights." -- Justice Scalia 1998
 
DOCSpanky......I beg to differ with your thinkin bout govt buyin from lowest bidder. If I offer loading cam for M-19 at 275.38 and a company run by a handicapped female minority member bids 315.oo; and we both comply with ISO 9000: She wins the contract with her bidders fifteen point advantage. Been there, done that.

Nuther example. I submit offer to build a thingy to spec for a little less than my cost. If I win the contract I then submit correction or mod to the spec to make the thingy better. If I get the mod, then I jack the price up to good profit level without having to compete again for the contract. I already have the contract.

Look at how few pieces of equipment get into the field without at least one mod. Look at how much the costs goes up tween contract and delivery on planes n things.

Back on thread. If S+W can void the agreement because of the government default, I might just think maby about giving my support back to them....depend on how they went about it.

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Sam I am, grn egs n packin

Nikita Khrushchev predicted confidently in a speech in Bucharest, Rumania on June 19, 1962 that: " The United States will eventually fly the Communist Red Flag...the American people will hoist it themselves."
 
Excuse me, but a Senate subcommittee does not make law. The Senate and the House must pass legislation and then the Klintong must sign it. Now, I believe that there is another process for overcoming executive orders, but a subcommittee does not negate an executive order. This is non-news.
 
Also, this has absolutely nothing to do with Clinton ... this is a mainly Republican bid (encouraged by GOA and many gun owners) to reassert the authority of Congress, and trash the extorted S&W agreement.

Hopefully this provision will survive. See the GOA thread elsewhere on TFL.

Regards from AZ
 
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