Smith & Wesson try to bribe gun owners

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NationalCCW

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Smith & Wesson are trying to sucker gun owners to come back and forgive the company for their sell outs. Bribes and brain washing are the order of the day at S&W as they infect our few pro-gun media outlets. News at the "money" icon at:
National CCW Reciprocity Foundation http://www.NationalCCW.com

Plus 2 new web polls.

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National CCW Reciprocity: http://www.homestead.com/njccw/nationalccw.html
 
All sorts of short-sighted business people will resort to having a sale or giving rebates instead of fixing the real reason their business is falling off. Look at Detroit, and how it pushed rebates and low financing to try to sell its cars when what they really should have done was built a better car than Honda and Toyota. They finally wised up (although parts of GM are still stuck in the '80s, notably Pontiac's styling department) and got with the program regarding reliability, quality and features people really want.

For S&W to fix their real problem, they would have to abrogate the sellout agreement and show some cojones in standing up to a government that wants them to impose illegal prior restraint of trade for social engineering purposes. Will they do it? WHo knows, pain in the profit margin is major motivation. Maybe they're holding out till after the election with the idea that if Bush wins, the Feds will be easier to deal with.

S&W makes decent products, including some of the best revolvers of all time. Quality and features are not the problem. Their problem is that they have broken faith with their customers and lost the brand loyalty it took so long to build. I wonder if they could ever win it back.
 
Let's not forget that in order to claim that rebate the dealer is required to return a copy of the form 4473 to Smith and Wesson.

Let's also not forget that Smith and Wesson is required to share all that paperwork with the government and various "anti-violence" programs.

You might as well just a mail Clinton a list of everything you own.
 
S&W proceeds ont he only path it knows:
$$$. The company quite reasonably expects that all its stocking dealers and distributors will jump up at the opportunity
to sell out their freedoms for the not
insubstantial sum of $50; and as for the stupid gun-owners, surely they won't want to miss an opportunity to save, would they?
S&W is walking dead, they just don;t know it.


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Washington delenda est
 
At the risk of being on the receiving end of big flames...

Don't you think we gun owners are cutting off our noses to spite our faces? If we put Colt, S&W, Ruger, etc. out of business because of their business decisions (that we view as political wussifying). Who will be making our beloved guns for the next generation? Norinco? Nope, we already banned their importation.

Jes' a thot...

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o I raised my hand to eye level, like pointing a finger, and fired. Wild Bill Hickok
o If you have to shoot a man, shoot him in the guts... Wild Bill Hickok
o 45 ACP: Give 'em a new navel! BigG
o It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. Justice Robert H. Jackson
o It is error alone that needs government support; truth can stand by itself. Tom Jefferson
o When you attempt to rationalize two inconsistent positions, you risk drowning as your own sewage backs up. BigG

[This message has been edited by BigG (edited August 08, 2000).]
 
BigG: there are still plenty of good gun makers. Springfield Armory, Taurus, and Beretta, et al have all publicly told the feebies to pound sand. With good companies standing in the gap, there's absolutely no reason to support traitors.
 
BigG, S&W will, hopefully, go bankrupt. Someone else, with more brains and stamina, will pick up their assets to continue the tradition ... the name, tooling, patents, etc. But, probably without the baggage of this damned agreement. Not a sure thing, but most likely.

S&W must die.


NationalCCW, I saw something else on your page that I thought was odd:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Cheney was one of just 21 lawmakers in 1985 to vote against a ban on armor piercing bullets, which we all know do not exist.[/quote]

I don't have any experience in the area, but 'armor piercing' ammo does, exist, no? Don't you mean the so-called 'cop killer bullets'?

Live and let live. Regards from AZ
 
Before the S&W sellout, there was a revolver from their Performance Center that I had high on my wish list.
That gun is now sitting in the display case at a local gun shop,... on sale!
As much as I wanted one, I will not buy it. The way I look at it, there are more guns that I'll want than I'll ever have the money to buy. If I'm not going to buy Hallmark cards, I'm certainly not going to buy S&W guns.
While we lament the loss of a quality product, I'm certain that someone will fill the void in time. There was a time when you had to get a Colt if you wanted a 1911. Look at the choices in that area today. The same will happen to the niche S&W occupies.
 
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