Monday, December 5, 2011


SFGate reports  Thanks Kriss for the e-mail tip.

In recent years, many top-selling brands - including the 195-year-old Remington Arms, as well as Bushmaster Firearms and DPMS, leading makers of military-style semiautomatics - have quietly passed into the hands of a single private company. It is called the Freedom Group - and it is the most powerful and mysterious force in the U.S. commercial gun industry today.

Never heard of it?

You're not alone. Even within gun circles, the Freedom Group is something of an enigma. Its rise has been so swift that it has become the subject of wild speculation and grassy-knoll conspiracy theories. In the realm of consumer rifles and shotguns - long guns, in the trade - it is unrivaled in its size and reach. By its own count, the Freedom Group sold 1.2 million long guns and 2.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the 12 months ended March 2010, the most recent year for which figures are publicly available.
One of the theories was that George Soros was behind it all in order to crush the hated gun business in America. So widespread was that rumor that the NRA made an official response to it.

I have another theory. The conspiracy goes much deeper than the George Soroses of the world and their enemies in the NRA. Super-intelligent aliens are doing this and the government knows it. The Soros/NRA thing is a smokescreen to prevent panic.

What's your theory?  Is it just big business doint what big business does?  Or is there something behind the scenes?

Please leave a comment.

2 comments:

  1. The Bill of Rights only prevents government infringement of rights--it does not prevent private citizens from infringing those rights.

    Big business could be buying up the firearms industry and regulating it properly without the political bullshit which normally accompanies this topic.

    After all one of their values is:

    Society
    We produce environmentally sound products and only act within the law. We will not compromise our moral or ethical principles.

    That's quite a difference from the current firearms industry and gun lobby position.

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  2. There's nothing to worry about here. I have mine already, and there are plenty of startup gun makers creating and producing new models.

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