Smith & Wesson fights back today!

[Yaworski]

“I am a big supporter of the 2nd Amendment, and I support the rights of law abiding citizens to protect themselves and their family. However, assault weapons and high capacity magazines, which have been used to murder innocents at Sandy Hook, Uvalde, Buffalo, and others, have no place in a civilized society and I support this ban”.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment but I'll vote to restrict it because I really don't care about you.

 

[BC38]

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment but I'll vote to restrict it because I really don't care about you.

...or your opinion - unless it will get me re-elected...

 

[BC38]

House Representative McBath voiced this at the hearing. I was incredulous. I sent carefully worded stern emails to my House Rep and both Senators asking them to challenge the veracity of this ridiculous claim. I'm sure they will have little effect but it is the only recourse available to me at this moment.

"With assault rifles, exit wounds can be a foot wide. The victim’s skull explodes on impact. Organs rupture, bones shatter, the shards serve as shrapnel and tear tissue to pieces.

There is a reason we never see the images after a mass murder—many of the bodies no longer exist."

Gee, if they are such a devastating killing machine round, how come my state fish & wildlife regs won't let me hunt deer with a .223/5.56 rifle? Maybe because deer shot with the round have been known to get up and run away? Wonder how they do that with a foot-wide exit wound?
That claim is obviously bovine excrement....

 

[raljr1]

Found this on linkedin

Robert
SWCA #2906

 

[Private Bailey]

What’s the significance of the S&W media handout of Mark Smith’s statement being on LinkedIn? Whose account was it found on? Anyone who has an account with LinkedIn can post. I had an account with them for business purposes years ago. But the site was becoming too invasive, sort of like a FaceBook for people in the job market. Closed my account with them at least 5 years ago.

I just wonder how and why the statement ended up there, that’s all. I don’t attach any importance to it. But that’s just me, I guess.

 

[Puller]

First, S&W’s internal lock has absolute nothing to do with what the subcommittee’s investigating. So stop talking about it. It’s irrelevant to this.

It is not irrelevant to S&W's previous response to an aggressive anti-2nd congress.

Seems S&W may have learned from the past, and I'm glad for it.

But we respect your opinion even if it's wrong.

 

[johngalt]

What site am I on? Seems rather strange to be condemning S&W for defending their business.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Spread this letter across the WWW.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

Make certain all our leaders get multiple copies. S&W stands for the truth.

 

[Capt. F.]

I think people are smart enough not to believe owning an AR raises their testosterone levels. This is just politicians looking for a scapegoat and I'm not willing to play into their hands.

Maybe the politicians should investigate themselves as the reason so many people have ARs. Political screaming about and threatening to "ban" ARs is the one and only reason I have any. I never had any interest in "black rifles", I still don't really care for them and i certainly don't enjoy shooting them.

My ARs are purely a political protest.

As is my son’s and mine. Very well said.

 

[Racer X]

big cities are where all the people are, and politicians can't blame all the crime on children being raised to behave like animals. Literally. Peeing and crapping where and when they want, and taking whatever they can get away with.

Telling your constituents they are causing their own problems will never get you elected or re-elected.

So they invent a boogeyman and create a common enemy. Except the boogeyman and the common enemy is their own Constitution.

 

[Krogen]

big cities are where all the people are, and politicians can't blame all the crime on children being raised to behave like animals. Literally. Peeing and crapping where and when they want, and taking whatever they can get away with.

Telling your constituents they are causing their own problems will never get them elected or re-elected.

So they invent a boogeyman and create a common enemy. Except the boogeyman and the common enemy is their own Constitution.

Well stated, Racer X.

 

[ladder13]

When I hear/read anyone leading with “I am a big supporter of the Second Amendment…..”, invariably, here comes the but/except.

 

[Beemerguy53]

...Telling your constituents they are causing their own problems will never get you elected or re-elected.

So they invent a boogeyman and create a common enemy. Except the boogeyman and the common enemy is their own Constitution.

Exactly right...

There are about 6,165,000 people in Maryland, of whom about 576,500 -- about 9.3% -- live in the City of Baltimore.

In 2020 -- the last year for which I can find the numbers -- there were 573 homicides in Maryland, of which 334 -- 58% -- occur in Baltimore.

There are -- literally -- ZIP codes in Baltimore that have more homicides than a number of states...and yet our elected officials refuse to talk about anything except gun control as a way to address violent crime.

Our last Governor, Larry Hogan, repeatedly asked the General Assembly to pass legislation mandating minimum prison sentences for those who carry guns illegally, but the legislature refused to consider it. Instead, they passed a law prohibiting charging anyone under the age of 12 with all but the most serious crimes...despite the fact that we have juveniles that age committing carjackings and armed robberies.

Blaming criminals for crime is a no-win strategy for Maryland politicians...blaming guns works every time.

 

[Racer X]

Guns aren't voters, so no risk of offending them.

 

[fordson]

How one city cut gun violence in half and may become a model around the country

Just read this article. According to it, Omaha is getting good results…… from a combination of LE and community involvement. Nowhere in the article did I read that any new or additional gun laws were enacted or implemented………imagine that……..

 

[Racer X]

How one city cut gun violence in half and may become a model around the country

Just read this article. According to it, Omaha is getting good results…… from a combination of LE and community involvement. Nowhere in the article did I read that any new or additional gun laws were enacted or implemented………imagine that……..

if you combine what they are doing with actually charging and convicting, and full duration incarceration, it is a very sound plan.

 

[Jeromejr]

Dictatorship

Today at the House and Oversight Committee, Smith and Wesson fought back and did it strong! I wish the other firearms manufacturers would follow their lead.

Courtesy of Newsmax:

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/guns-house-oversight/2022/08/15/id/1083205/


Smith & Wesson fired back at the House Oversight and Reform Committee subpoena filed by Democrats, which seeks details on its modern sporting rifles (MSR), issuing a stinging rebuke of crime in Democrat-run cities with strict gun control on law-abiding citizens and "soft-on-crime policies."

"A number of politicians and their lobbying partners in the media have recently sought to disparage Smith & Wesson," CEO Mark Smith wrote in a statement Monday. "Some have had the audacity to suggest that after they have vilified, undermined and defunded law enforcement for years, supported prosecutors who refuse to hold criminals accountable for their actions, overseen the decay of our country’s mental health infrastructure, and generally promoted a culture of lawlessness, Smith & Wesson and other firearm manufacturers are somehow responsible for the crime wave that has predictably resulted from these destructive policies.

"But they are the ones to blame for the surge in violence and lawlessness, and they seek to avoid any responsibility for the crisis of violence they have created by attempting to shift the blame to Smith & Wesson, other firearm manufacturers and law-abiding gun owners.

"It is no surprise that the cities suffering most from violent crime are the very same cities that have promoted irresponsible, soft-on-crime policies that often treat criminals as victims and victims as criminals," Smith continued. "Many of these same cities also maintain the strictest gun laws in the nation. But rather than confront the failure of their policies, certain politicians have sought more laws restricting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, while simultaneously continuing to undermine our institutions of law and order.

"And to suppress the truth, some now seek to prohibit firearm manufacturers and supporters of the Second Amendment from advertising products in a manner designed to remind law-abiding citizens that they have a constitutional right to bear arms in defense of themselves and their families."

In addition to requesting data on MSRs, the House Oversight Committee chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., sought crime and death data.

"To be clear, a Smith & Wesson firearm has never broken into a home; a Smith & Wesson firearm has never assaulted a woman out for a late-night run in the city; a Smith & Wesson firearm has never carjacked an unsuspecting driver stopped at a traffic light," Smith's statement continued.

"Instead, Smith & Wesson provides these citizens with the means to protect themselves and their families. We are proud of our 170-year history. We are proud of the commitment of our employees to making a quality product. We are proud to provide law-abiding citizens and law enforcement — our customers — with the tools to provide for their security and independence. We are proud of our responsible business practices."

Smith's statement concluded the subpoena was merely an effort to score "political points" while Democrats were failing on the crime issue.

"We will continue to work alongside law enforcement, community leaders and lawmakers who are genuinely interested in creating safe neighborhoods," it read. "We will engage those who genuinely seek productive discussions, not a means of scoring political points.

"We will continue informing law-abiding citizens that they have a constitutionally protected right to defend themselves and their families. We will never back down in our defense of the Second Amendment."

This is all about dictatorship! By the ruling class! They can’t have their dictatorship if we’re all armed. Disarm the people. We’re not talking about dictatorship enough!
“This day will go down in history! Know we have gun control. Our streets will be safer and police more efficient “ Adolph Hitler 1935

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[tajada]

It’s like blaming car manufacturers for accidents, it’s insane.