Wilson Combat does the right thing!

[Fishing_Cabin]

Fishing Cabin,

Might I suggest that before you criticize Wilson Combat, you contact them and see if they would consider adding the Feds to their list? This may be less a matter of hypocrisy than one of somebody at Wilson not having thought about it.

I will attempt to call them the first of the week for clarification. Though the notice about the hold times longer then normal, and busy signals on their website, I will try to get through and see what they have to say.

My concern, and the reason why I am not happy with the stance (as written), is that after trying to support protections for RKBA at the state level, I feel its wrong to specifically call out no sales to local/state LE in the states affected with bans, but there is silence on selling to the feds there as well. Why should it be ok to sell to a fed in Ca, but not ok to sell to a state/local officer in Ca? Im speaking of fed as in USSS, BATF, FBI, DHS, etc type federal agencies, not the military.

Again, after supporting protections at state level, I have a problem with discontinuing sales to state/local, but yet empowering the feds by continuing sales to them if the feds in question are in the same state.

Your correct, MLeake, it may be a matter of oversight, instead of separating the two differently. I apologize that I was not more clear earlier.

I know many may not agree with my views, but fortunately we have that choice to have differing viewpoints.

 

[MLeake]

Fishing Cabin, I doubt that typical Federal agencies buy through local offices; I suspect they are more like the military, where contracts are awarded at HQ level, so I don't think there would be a way to halt sales to, say, ATF agents in Illinois.

I suspect that halting sales to Federal LE in any state really requires halting sales to Federal LE, period.

I don't know if Wilson Combat has thought about Feds or not. I'm just saying that it would probably be good to ask them if they do have any policy on the Feds, before deciding they are deliberately being hypocritical in their policy.

Also, if the Feds don't pass any legislation this session, and things remain as they were last year at the Federal level, would banning sales to Federal LE really be applicable?

 

[Double Naught Spy]

Wilson Combat will no longer provide any products or services to any State Government imposing legislation that infringes on the second amendment rights of its law abiding citizens

Interesting statement. Strangely, they still sell guns to some state governments when last I checked, every single one of them had some legislation that infringed on the 2nd amendment.

Of course, Wilson doesn't hold a lot of big government contracts and currently we are in a period where gun companies cannot keep up with demand, so there will be no net loss to Wilson in terms of profits, and they might actually do better given that they won't be losing profits to LEO discounts to those states. So financially this move behooves them as it does for publicity.