The Real Outrage of the S&W Agreement

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Joseph

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Smith & Wesson has a right to modify their weapons as they see fit. It's the new dealer code of conduct which is absolutely outrageous and which affects all of us that creates a de facto police state without congressional involvement. Some of the items include:

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The code of conduct will require authorized dealers and distributors to:

Gun shows: make no gun show sales unless all sales at the gun show are completed only after a background check.

Safety training for purchasers: transfer firearms only to individuals who have passed certified safety course or exam and demonstrate to purchasers how to use all safety devices and how to load, unload, and safely store the firearm before completing the sale.

Multiple handgun sales: all purchasers of multiple handguns to take only one handgun from the store on the day of sale, at which point a multiple sales report will be filed with ATF. The remainder of the guns can only be collected after 14 days.

Child access: require persons under 18 to be accompanied by adults in gun stores or gun sections of stores.

Weapons attractive to criminals: not sell large capacity magazines or semiautomatic assault weapons.

Compliance: provide law enforcement, government regulators, and the Oversight Commission established in this Agreement with access to documents necessary to determine compliance; cooperate fully in the Agreement’s Oversight mechanism.
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This is just reprehensible!!! We can't take this quietly!

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"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
 
Agreed, the dealer provisions ARE the outrageous part of the deal; S&W can go belly up for all I care; I don't own any of their products, and certainly won't buy any of their new politically correct guns when they come out. But to submit to the gun control movement on behalf of other people? HOW DARE THEY?

I can only hope they get a LOT of messages from dealers, telling them to stick their products where the sun doesn't shine.

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Sic semper tyrannis!
 
It's Legislation by Litigation!

Another end-run around the Constitution and not a peep from congress.

The liberals in DC must be wetting themselves with excitement over this new development... :mad:

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John/az

"The middle of the road between the extremes of good and evil, is evil. When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden, it's yellow..." RKBA!
 
And just when the NRA seem to sprout a backbone again with its comments directed toward the occupants in the White House.
coincidence...?
:mad:

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...defend the 2nd., it protects us all.
No fate but what we make...
 
IMHO, this is not only terrible public policy, but it is literally dangerous public policy.

Even liberals will rue this trend, because there will come a day when their ox is gored. What industry can possibly stand up to threat of government suits?

I think I need to start a new thread on this, in Legal and Poltical.
 
S&W is screwed. I feel more sorry for them than anything. They won't sell enough guns to cover operating costs in the next few years because of this stupid agreement. And if they go back on the agreement they'll be put out of business by a corrupt government that holds all the cards. They're out of business as of today; it's only a matter of time until an American institution falls choking and dying in the dust because Al Gore needed a bigger push in an election. It's enough to make me shake as I sit here.
RAGE.
 
Once again we see a carefully scripted capitulation under threat of economic ruin. Colt (I believe it was) rolled over and was promptly awarded a military contract. S&W caves and the next day we see HUD and law enforcement "encouraged" to be preferential in business dealings (I wonder how this will square with gov't procurement rules about competitive bidding, but that is another thread).

What do you wager that the White House pressured the Prime Minister of the UK to squeeze the owners of S&W here in the US of A? What side bet would you place that S&W is now a front runner for some European or NATO contract?

These guys have no interest in "protecting children." Their only interest is nationalization of the firearms industries so they are the only ones who make a buck. Back in the old days we called this totalitarianism.

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Waitone of Charlotte
 
Waitone: It's totalitarianism, but with a fascist face. Fascism exists where there is ostensible private ownership of businesses, but a government pulls the strings and calls all of the shots. Usually, the businessman and the govt. are quite cozy and happy with their relationship. That's why people should not look to most businessmen for leadership--the bottom line is their first, and too often only, concern. Heck, with the 400-pound gorilla known as govt. on your side, who needs free markets? You can beat your competitors through govt. force and favoritism.
DAL

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Reading "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal," by Ayn Rand, should be required of every politician and in every high school.
GOA, JPFO, PPFC, CSSA, LP, NRA
 
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