Following in LaRue Tactical’s footsteps, Olympic Arms has announced that police and other government entities in New York are now customers non grata in their store following the passage of new York’s firearms ban. It’s unknown exactly how much business OA does with NYS entities, but I get the feeling that it’s the sentiment that matters the most. Presser after the jump . . .
Via Facebook:
Press Release: Olympic Arms, Inc. Announces New York State Sales Policy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Olympic Arms is a staunch believer in and defender of the Constitution of the United States, and with special attention paid to the Bill of Rights that succinctly enumerates the security of our Divinely given Rights. One of those Rights is that to Keep and Bear Arms.
Legislation recently passed in the State of New York outlaws the AR15 and many other firearms, and will make it illegal for the good and free citizens of New York to own a large selection of legal and safe firearms and magazines. We feel as though the passage of this legislation exceeds the authority granted to the government of New York by its citizens, and violates the Constitution of the United States, ignoring such SCOTUS rulings as District of Columbia v. Heller – 554, U.S. 570 of 2008, McDonald v. Chicago – 561 U.S. 3025 of 2010, and specifically the case of United States v. Miller – 307 U.S. 174 of 1939.
Due the passing of this legislation, Olympic Arms would like to announce that the State of New York, any Law Enforcement Departments, Law Enforcement Officers, First Responders within the State of New York, or any New York State government entity or employee of such an entity – will no longer be served as customers.
In short, Olympic Arms will no longer be doing business with the State of New York or any governmental entity or employee of such governmental entity within the State of New York – henceforth and until such legislation is repealed, and an apology made to the good people of the State of New York and the American people.
If the leaders of the State of New York are willing to limit the right of the free and law abiding citizens of New York to arm themselves as they see fit under the Rights enumerate to all citizens of the United State through the Second Amendment, we feel as though the legislators and government entities within the State of New York should have to abide by the same restrictions.
This action has caused a division of the people into classes: Those the government deems valuable enough to protect with modern firearms, and those whose lives have been deemed as having less value, and whom the government has decided do not deserve the right to protect themselves with the same firearms. Olympic Arms will not support such behavior or policy against any citizen of this great nation.
Olympic Arms invites all firearms manufacturers, distributors and firearms dealers to join us in this action to refuse to do business with the State of New York. We must stand together, or we shall surely fall divided.
Sincerely,
Brian Schuetz President Olympic Arms, Inc.
Begun, the attrition wars have.
“This action has caused a division of the people into classes: Those the government deems valuable enough to protect with modern firearms, and those whose lives have been deemed as having less value…”
This is awesome!
Thanks Olympic Arms!
ATF will investigate the crime scene (at Cabin) after fire burns out
I just hope that Dorner doesn’t have a dog.
Now if every manufacturer would follow suit.
Awesome!
Out of curiosity what kind of quality is OA’s products? I’ve heard of them but dont really know anything beyond the name
They’re pretty good for lower cost ARs. I would take one before a DPMS or a bushy.
If I can ever get the funds for another AR, an Olympic may be on the list.
Sad to see what has happened in my home state. But Florida treats gun owners right. LaRue and Olympic have the right idea.
Wouldn’t it be marvellous if a CHL holder out him down?
I bought an Olympic arms ar-15 over 10 years ago. Still going strong. The quality is about the same as bush master. Nothing super fancy. Just a good gun that works for 800 plus dollars. Well probably more in this environment. Well done OA. I hope others do that same. That would be awesome.
When unintended consequences come a-knockin’.
The station my wife is watching had a PO say that they’d launched explosive grenades ito the cabin–and that they are very hot. And the place is engulfed in flame. Gee, who woulda thunk? And now they are saying that they are not really sure that Dorner is in there after all….Huh?? My wife just said: “They haveno clue as to what’s going on.” Or they are not teling us.
As opposed to the non-explody kind of grenades, also known as “rocks”? {snort}
As gratifying as this may be it doesn’t mean much unless a Glock follows suit.
That home is near I-5 a major crime artery
Whoa. This story is totally upside down. First of all, old guys are not supposed to break into the homes of young guys. That’s just, like, stoopid. And potentially fatal, even if the young guy doesn’t have a gun. Young guys are supposed to break into the homes of old guys or gals, and then they get popped. Second, nobody shot the dog, so these people obviously have no understanding of proper police procedure.
Give up your guns, America, because you totally s^ck at self defense. 🙂
Every human has the natural, inherent right to licitly accquire property and use that property for licit purposes.
For clarity, I mean “licit” as in accordance with the Natural Law.
I think most americans dont buy Obama’s 90 re-barf of antigun crap. I think we are getting the message out. Keep fighting my fellow 2A supporter we can beat this PIG at PR.
Isnt it funny how in cases such as Castlerock v Gonzalez, the courts have ruled that the police have no responsibility to protect people. If your family was threatened, do you expect the police to provide them with 24×7 protection? So why do these cop famalies get 24×7 protection?
From what I’ve been reading around on forums they have fixed all the issues with this gun. Thier newer production runs have a different barrel (cylindrical no shaved sides) and different bolt and some other internal parts.
Like LaRue, Olympic Arms has called and raised the antis.
I’d be nice if more companies will follow. It might not be a
bad idea to twist a few arms with our dollars. Simply email
S&W, Winchester, Kimber etc… they can choose to
denounce the insanity of New York’s gun laws or not and
we can choose to support only those who do. The very
large manufacturers know full well what happened to
Cheaper Than Dirt. They know that fence straddling or
caving could prove to be a huge commercial failure.
Keep up the good work Bruce! It will be interesting to see if Mr. Bragman responds
Funny, they fixed it in the Model 60LS, yes Lady Smith. I bought one for my wife and she even let me shoot it. Great gun but less pull than the regular mod60 so smoother feel. Great release pulling DA. SA is like butter. If it didn’t say
lady, I might even carry it lol
Just so we are ALL CLEAR, the second picture on this thread at the top is not and I repeat NOT the proper grip for a revolver. That is a good way to lose the tip of you fonger or at least your fingerprints.
Waiting for mine to arrive at my LGS. I have had the SR1911 for 6 months and it is a fantastic shooter. Looking forward to putting this one on the range as well.
OUT/FREAKIN’ STANDING!
I’m with you on machine guns and grenades and so on, up the chain. The Second Amendment isn’t 100% absolute. There are reasonable limits on everything, and that seems to me like a reasonable place to draw the line on what constitutes “arms” in a citizen’s context.
The thing is, there’s an egregious double standard when it comes to how some rights are treated. The First Amendment isn’t absolute, any more than the Second. We can all say just about anything we want on Facebook, Twitter, a forum, or a blog, publishing our personal opinions to the masses, and it’s considered to be protected by the First Amendment — if the Second were treated the same way, we would all own grenades and belt-fed machine guns, and the truly wealthy and powerful among us (Murdoch, Bloomberg, et al.) would have their own tanks, fighter jets, and armed drones.
The militia situation is completely different today than it was back then; nobody has been expected to muster with military-quality arms in the state’s defense for probably 150 years. But that is absolutely irrelevant to the right itself. The existence of the national guard (i.e., state militias) is not a valid support for any sort of gun control at all. In fact, more like the opposite.
I don’t have enough knowledge to argue 2A points on political, historical, or legal grounds. However, given that I have a literary education (got my grad-school bona fides hanging on my office wall and everything) and words are my daily business, I *am* qualified to talk about the language of the Second Amendment. From what little I know of legal precedent, nearly every restriction that has been upheld by the courts relies on a fundamental misunderstanding of grammar.
I don’t have the correct terminology right here at the tip of my tongue, but what’s going on in that sentence is that the *second* part, not the first, is the part that really matters. Making decisions based on the first half of the sentence is just hacking around in the weeds.
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,” means nothing by itself. The practical reason behind this part of the 2A is fairly obvious; every country needs some sort of army for its own defense. But that has nothing to do with the actual human right that’s at stake. Grammatically, this clause takes its meaning from an operative clause; by itself, it’s only an incomplete thought that means nothing at all.
The core meaning of the Second Amendment is in its only grammatically necessary element: the declaration that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” That clause can stand by itself; it doesn’t take its meaning from anything else. It’s grammatically complete. It enumerates a right that belongs to the people and tells everybody to keep their mitts off it. The whole concept of a militia stems from that right; both grammatically and practically, a militia can’t exist without it. (And let’s not confuse a militia with a professional army, which is what our armed forces are.)
Basically, this is a direct order to the government: the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The militia part lends context and describes a benefit that the founders had in mind, but it doesn’t enumerate or restrict anything.
People! Write other Gun companies to Join the Effort! To all States that have Strict Gun Laws! Email them and Tell them of your Frustration and Put Pressure on them to Restrict the sales of Guns and Ammunition to Gov’t entities!
TTAG Should Start a campaign to Get the Gun companies to Support the People rather than Gov’t’s! Call and Email the Companies, your state Representatives and Congressmen!
No one from the WH should have attended but if Obummer can comment on the passing of drug addict and crazy Whitney Houston…he should have made some comment on Chris Kyle’s death. He “should have” but I am not surprised he didn’t. There was no way to turn Kyle’s death into something that Obummer could use for political gain or as an excuse to talk about himself, so he remained silent.
Way to go Olympic! Now its time for the rest of the arms industry to follow suit.
I appreciate the policy, but ultimately I don’t think it will have any impact. If the NY government wants to buy something, they will simply go through a 3rd party distributor. If firearms manufactures want to limit their products, then they need to have their customers (distributors & dealers) under contract not to distribute to NY.
god bless this company it show you that god men can do good . hope that outher companys do the same like dpms colt all firearm company stand up to gov and state the dont care, about the bill of rights
Unfortunately, you can’t fix stupid.
Ban all civilian sales and see if LaRue and Olympic reconsider LEO sales.
Somehow, I think that NY LEOs will have noooooo problems getting what they want.
We can’t forget about the UMOUNGOUS proportion of unreported crimes. Its above 38%.
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I’m still waiting for the complete list of studies.
“Just ask the Carpenter family (those who remain, that is), or ask David Olofson, or the few surviving Mount Carmel Branch Davidians, or the Reese family, or the survivors of the Weaver family, or any of the numerous other victims of the ATF’s arbitrary, capricious and sometimes downright vindictive policies and actions.”
I can promise you one thing: if i was ever elected president, those agents and their supervisors would be hunted down, arrested, tried, and sentenced to life in the colorado supermax. The alphabet soup agencies disbanded. war crimes tribunals would be running 24/7 during my entire term in presidency.
one can only dream that the legal system can do the right thing.
Don’t know if a SOTU post is in the works; but looks like it is confirmed that the Obama administration is going to focus primarily on Background Checks above all else. There was a bit of a name check on an AWB without actually calling for it though.
Can you believe that we elected this snake charmer not once but twice? America, thy name is Stupid.
‘a guy i know’ was hoping nugent would live up to his promises. Can i say that online? Is that a drone? Wait, my cabin is on fire.
Take guns out of the hands of police. If it saves one puppy . . . .
The movie “swordfish” comes to mind…
“If nothing else, I have to be aware of who might be aware that I’m carrying a gun in case they freak. ”
Weird, weird, weird to me.
I heard it with my own 2 ears on the police scanner. “we’re gonna go forward with the plan, with the burn” “like we talked about”
I can’t verify it was LAPD though, San Bernadino sheriff had the lead on it today as far as I knew.
Doesn’t surprise me though, this is like the 4th “standoff” in So Cal in the past few years that has ended with the suspect burning inside the building. Even one of the more prominent news guys on the radio said it would appear this is now a tactic of the swat teams.
So, John Q. Public offs a BG in the act, “Eff yeah! Party! Thanks for removing a burden to the tax payers!” But a cop returns fire and we’re living in soviet russia?
Uncle Joe playing the ol’ “Divide and Conquer” game. Turd!
Politicians are rabid, mean-spirited dogs. They can’t help it. They’re born evil and power-hungry and do their best to follow that twisted lifestyle.
The people who deserve the blame are the American people for being despicable, idiotic, morally-bankrupt morons asleep at the wheel and unwilling to be defenders of liberty.
So, Obama, no sense hating you. You’re a dog, unworthy of the consideration.
But, America, F— you. The only comfort I get is knowing you’ll all suffer and eventually die in misery, finally appreciating the truth of the adage that says those who have never been without freedom can’t possibly know how vital it is to defend.
Ooh, a Garand! Most excellent!!!
As David Keene said the AR-15 is the 21st century musket!!!!
(future) US Citizens didn’t give a damn about what the Brits thought in the 1770’s and I can’t see that much has changed in the past 200+ years. They are so used to being Subjects that they will never understand what it takes to have real freedom…
Intriguing! I’m glad you guys do reviews of interesting, lesser-known products that fly somewhat beneath the radar or I might have otherwise never heard of the Lionheart. My LGS’s don’t stock these types of non-mainstream firearms, so internet reviews from trusted sources like TTAG are extremely important to me. Any chance you guys can review the Boberg XR9-S? It looks as if the design may have some flaws, but also some serious promise. Any of the readers out there have any experience with the Boberg XR9?
pandering to democrats is worse than being drinking buddies with Lenin …. at least he was consistent
NO. The 100k isn’t to make amends. It’s to buy absolution.
$100,000 to SAF? I think that’s reasonable atonement, though they dragged their name through the mud. Dunno if they can recover. If they don’t, then they will be kind of like the dead crow we left as an example to the others.
They just passed it. Colorado is the new California.
I would of course, love to see them in Texas… but still hold out hope that CO won’t screw over their own populace like that.
Mrs. Bobbitt who?
How stupid Colorado is… legalize pot and outlaw guns. Whose in charge there a bunch of hippies?
Going for the “headshot”
The free vs. unfree state experiment continues.