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Every time I see Crazy Joe I mourn for the village that is missing their idiot.
TRIGGER FINGER
‘Nick,
With all due respect, your quoting is looking like NBC’s – You are editing out in your favor – not good. That tactic is not defensible and is counterproductive. You quote:
“Since assault weapons are not a major contributor to US gun homicide and the existing stock of guns is large, an assault weapon ban is unlikely to have an impact on gun violence.”
Whereas, the whole statement is this:
“Since assault weapons are not a major contributor to US gun homicide and the existing stock of guns is large, an assault weapon ban is unlikely to have an impact on gun violence. If coupled with a gun buyback and no exemptions then it could be effective.”
Finger off the trigger dumbass.
Trigger finger
Inappropriate range clothing
no eye protection
mag in gun (and chamber closed) while not pointed in safe direction
(at least the freakin’ safety is on)
What a poseur.
A 12 gauge shotgun is easier to aim and fire than an AR? lol.
Being an American is a right?
I thought being an American guaranteed you certain rights.
Someone needs to go retake civics. Oh, wait, they don’t teach that in school anymore. They replaced it with self-awareness classes, because it’s more important to “feel good” about yourself than it is to learn how to become a responsible citizen.
And get your damn finger off the trigger, girl.
It’s a staged photo… everybody relax, jeez.
Thanks for pointing that out, Captain Obvious.
Don’t worry ladies, the little picture on your computer screen won’t shoot you.
Jeez. Some people have no tolerance whatsoever for photographs.
I think her statement makes her a good American. And she’s cute, whoever she is, so I’m glad she likes her guns.
@ skyler, yes i agree, (the trigger finger bothers me though). chill pill folks, wide perspective here, glass is half full.
TTAG staff should have picked up on the trigger finger placement and made some kind of typical remark.
They also own a .45mm-Glock, as I read. Glock dabbling in particle accelerators, maybe?
Still, I’d like the people who speak about our shared passion to adhere to basic safety rules.
Apparently they rented one. Also a semi-auto M16, even though that doesn’t exist either. From the article:
“Montag and Pratt also rented several weapons, including an M16 semi-automatic rifle… and a .45mm-Glock pistol.”
We will not win by being Assholes. Give the girl a break. She actually has a reason to be liked now in my book. At least shes not demanding a plan because shes a hypocrite and feels bad about it.
See comments above as to why it’s so hard for us to reach out to the other side. We berate our own supporters, so why join us when you can stay with the grabbers and at least not be cussed by your “friends”. Seriously, not everyone who is a pro photographer knows the four rules. And you can easily tell this is a posed photo.
+1
There are a lot of pedants who feel good pointing out that they know a rule that someone else isn’t following.
Read the article. I think there’s something wrong with her “.45mm Glock pistol”.
So I don’t think the cocaine addled brain of a guy who makes stuff up for a living holds much insight on really any issue.
A freakin’ 12-gauge, what do you think?
Obviously Mr. Biden is listening to the world-renowned self defense expert Napoleon Dynamite.
Don: Hey, Napoleon. What did you do last summer again?
Napoleon Dynamite: I told you! I spent it with my uncle in Alaska hunting wolverines!
Don: Did you shoot any?
Napoleon Dynamite: Yes, like 50 of ’em! They kept trying to attack my cousins, what the heck would you do in a situation like that?
Don: What kind of gun did you use?
Napoleon Dynamite: A freakin’ 12-gauge, what do you think?
I recently picked one of these up and it is definitely a great addition to any rifle especially if you want to harness the CQB and medium range capabilities of your AR. I was very surprised at how well built this device is and once I got over how big the VFG was, and got to the range to put some rounds on target, I realized that I had found what I was looking for.
Cheers,
Dave
MyGrip Pod Review
So Armalite’s official position is that police should be allowed to possess firearms that ordinary citizens cannot possess … Not that ordinary citizens should not be able to possess them, only that police are better and should not be held to the same legal and moral standards as everyone else. Does that about sum it up?
I’m still confused about this.
Basically, they are NOT selling to state or local governments that have banned their rifles for civilians. But they DO sell to individual police officers using their own money?
I really doubt most officers have to buy their own guns for the police car when the DOD is handing out free M16s to any law enforcement group out there.
Even if a police officer HAD to buy their own guns from a company, wouldn’t the department force them to all buy from the same company for easier servicing and to just generally be annoying?
So, if they are buying their own guns, with their own moneys, on an individual basis, doesn’t that make it more likely that those individual police officers are actually gun owners IRL and shooters IRL outside of work? Aka people like us but with a job that puts them into the “only ones” that anti-gun people are okay with?
Good friend & former college roommate is a Nashville Metro PD officer and their policy is select officers who have received training are allowed to purchase their own “patrol rifles” – the dept. does not issue them. Just a point of reference. I’m sure SWAT and other select groups get them provided.
Thieves….
Taking advantage of the same loyal customers who built their company is disgusting.
Gander Mountain keeps a pretty good stock of things without gouging.
I have been watching them selling various AR platform rifles at list prices, and not the $3000 to $4000 some are charging.
They also sell their .223 ammo at normal prices, not the 3x $20 a box CTD is charging.
This is a vivid demonstration of what CTD cares about – their bottom line only, screw the customers who have always supported then.
Let me “cliff notes” ArmaLites response.
To whom it may concern,
I was a cop. The a-hole that sent the initial response was not as friendly as he should have been, so let me try. I’m a retired cop. The a-hole that sent the initial response is currently a cop. We here at ArmaLite believe that cops are superior to you peasants so we will continue to sell our sh!t to them even though you all can’t buy it. You mopes don’t need these guns anyway. If you want them; come walk “the thin blue line” with us hard-asses.
Sincerely,
Sgt. Hard Ass
Well, I guess I’ll never give Armalite any of my business. The whole law enforcement and former law enforcement being allowed to own firearms we can’t frustrates me. I’m a veteran and I don’t understand how being a former cop gives them more rights than me.
I agree that there’s a strong whiff of weasel about ArmaLite’s response, however…
…the companies that have been shouting that they’re stopping sales to ban states are all small manufacturers or resellers whose bread and butter is clearly the civilian market, not the govt/military. So their flag-waving is almost as cheap as ArmaLite’s hair-splitting. I’m glad they feel the way they do, but it’s not as if they’re making a huge financial sacrifice.
The only one I credit with taking a real risk is Magpul. They could clearly stay in CO and get special dispensation to keep making and selling their products. Moving will be expensive and disruptive, no matter what they say. And there’s a nonzero chance of retaliation in the form of the Dems engineering another military ban on plastic magazines.
What do you do with people who lie to achieve their desires and KNOW, that they are lying? And then do it over and over again?
Crunk you just made me laugh so hard i almost shit my pants!
Sent this to Armalite, thoughts? Good? Bad? Ugly? As community here we have overwhelmingly recognized that the tone of our arguments can be much more influential than the facts. Let’s continue to set the tone, even though we are tired of doing so by now
Armalite,
I recently noticed the removal of your facebook page and this made me sad, I loved the ‘free stuff’ updates and the inventory posts. It made for a company that interacted with its customer base more than many do, it made it personal.
That being said let me clarify my standing. I’ve owned and loved 2 AR10A4 rifles one 20″ and one 16″, both were excellent firearms and I had planned to purchase one of the new “A” models that were pmag compatible. I’m a Firearms instructor in your north east neighbor Michigan, served 6 years in the Marine Corps infantry where I also served as an instructor, and I have been thoroughly happy with your products.
I know you’re a receiving a heavy backlash from the private sales sector at the moment. There are a great many angry people, many of whom may have never bought product from you and perhaps who never would. I understand their sentiments as well as I understand yours. I work side by side with a police department that supplies their own personal rifles and I have absolutely no desire to see those officers hurt or out gunned..
But… there is always a but it seems,
I must agree with the message, if not the tone, of the private community. The only way to drag some change out of the LEO’s communities that are banned from possessing your products is too put them on equal footing. It’s all well and good to say you believe everyone should be able to own your rifles and that you sell to LEOs who believe the same, as they are fantastic products at a competitive price, but when that same LEO can still buy that rifle but the citizen he says should also be able to buy it cannot he essentially has no skin the fight. He can say, sincerely even, that he believes in the people’s right to own that firearm but at the end of the day he has no personal stake in the fight.. he already has his gun, he’s not denied his gun, it’s not his right’s he’s fighting for and that ultimately makes it not his fight, as sincerely as he might believe in the cause at the end of the day he has his gun, it’s not denied to him.
I understand that it is a dramatic move, that it will shift business and that it could potentially risk the life of an LEO by denying him or her a rifle.. I completely understand that. But that is, sadly, the point we are at. Officers who believe in the Second Amendment need skin in the game, real teeth. If they can go to their superiors, elected officials and say “Look, your stupid political game is putting MY life in danger for no gain what so ever” then something will have to give.
Maybe you are already face to face with a great many of the departments, maybe you already sell only to staunchly pro 2A officers, but the civilian community you sell to wants their LEO brothers with some skin in this fight too. It isn’t easy, it could be painful, but we as lawful citizens should be on equal footing. That is the message we want to see as a community, all of us with skin in the game, because your profession does not define what rights you receive or to what degree you can have them, they are rights.
I hope this has been a calmer voice with the same message, I work in areas where it never pays to become angry, you get visibly angry you lose the argument.
Here is our argument, at least what I perceive as our true argument.
Thank you for your time and consideration, you have responded personally in the past and for that I thank you as well
Keith F
Nicely said.
If patrol rifles are denied to citizens, then all citizens, including cops should not have them. If the cops in blue states feel they need to buy a patrol rifle out of their own pockets they should follow the rules of any other citizen. .30-30’s all around in NY Ca and ILL.
The mags are made for us by Lancer. Its not a state secret or anything. I ordered another 10,000 mags at SHOT so, God willing, I will have them in early March. I will slate a large percentage for CO as well. Right now, the staff is getting ready to put more UZI mags and a few AK mags up as CO-Specials as well.
The “Nevada thing”, well…I got the info from an employee there as did the Firearmsblog. I qam not sure if it was a definite “no” as much as a “not yet”. I did remove it after speaking with one of their higher ups. If the law passes, and they stay, I don’t suspect their life will be easy. I know that I left California specifically because their oppressive laws would not have allowed my own company to flourish as it does in AZ.
I will add that I have staff looking at other states that are facing the same “communist manifesto” and we will do our best to prioritize sales of magazines and rifles to them first.
Gabe Suarez
I smiled when I saw this. I don’t live in Eric Burlison’s district, but just outside of Springfield. I’m well familiar with both the gun shop and the shooting range in the video. My only regret is that I didn’t happen to get a chance to have at it with a buckshot-loaded Mossberg 930 🙂
Tom
“Violent crimes caused by guns”?
I don’t know of any gun ever causing a crime.
Huzzah’s to Doublestar. Here is a copy of my email to Armalite, Glock, Ruger, Bushmaster, Freedom Group etc.
To Whom It May Concern,
These are trying times for those of us who fight to defend our precious 2nd Amendment civil rights. To quote Benjamin Franklin “We must all hang together gentlemen, or surely we will all hang separately”. Does Armalite stand with us or against us in this fight? If you truly wish to show your solidarity with We The People, then you must join the growing list of companies that have stopped selling “assault weapons” to police agencies in those jurisdictions which have banned their ownership by law abiding citizens. Don’t aid and abet the destruction of our 2nd Amendment rights by selling AR-15 rifles to any police dept. that enforces an “assault weapon” ban in violation of The U.S. Constitution. Your customers are watching you and we expect you to do the right thing and stand with us. Please close the “police loophole” and fight the good fight.
Yours In Liberty,
I’m starting an organization: CASM (Citizens Against Stupid Mayors).
I actually would like to see 2 more statistics on this graph: % of households with at least 1 firearm, and the overall violent crime rate. It may not make the graph quite as dramatic, but I’m a cold hard facts kinda guy.
In Texas, if they are climbing through the window they are bought and paid for. Yes, Defensive gun use.