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Group of Second Amendment-Supporting Gun Makers Now Refusing to Sell Arms to Law Enforcement in New York (And Other Gun-Restricting States)

Feb. 15, 2013 3:17pm Mike Opelka

This story has been updated to add two additional gun makers and sellers to the list of those no longer patronizing law enforcement in states that do not support the Second Amendment.

Since New York State enacted its restrictive new gun laws, many manufacturers have sent that state (and others) a message: If local governments are going to severely restrict the ability of citizens to own guns, then these companies will not be selling to law enforcement in those areas.

Among the gun manufacturers sending that message:

Olympic Arms posted a press release on the company’s Facebook page earlier this week. Their intentions were quite clear.

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 (to) 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.

EFI, LLC has a long-standing policy of not selling to law enforcement in states that restrict private gun ownership. TheBlaze interviewed EFI’s President Melinda Meador on the subject. Her statement was quite succinct:

“We refuse to recognize law enforcement exemptions on gun control. If a product that we manufacture is not legal for a private citizen to own in a jurisdiction, we will not sell that product to a law-enforcement agency in that jurisdiction.”

The company’s policy supports a broad market strategy for sales. Meador reminded us that “law enforcement sales don’t make up a significant portion of the market.”

The York Arms website is one that did not mince words on the company’s policy as it relates to gun sales for New York.

Based on the recent legislation in New York, we are prohibited from selling rifles and receivers to residents of New York. We have chosen to extend that prohibition to all governmental agencies associated with or located within New York. As a result we have halted sales of rifles, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, machine guns, and silencers to New York governmental agencies.

For “civilian” customers residing in New York:  At your choice, we will:

complete your order and ship to a dealer of your choice outside of NY

refund your payment in full

hold your items here for up to 6 months, at no charge – if you are in the process of leaving NY and taking residence in another state.

For LE/Govt customers in New York:

Your orders have been cancelled.

Texas-based La Rue Tactical also posted their new policy on Facebook on February 8th:

Effective today, in an effort to see that no legal mistakes are made by LaRue Tactical and/or its employees, we will apply all current State and Local Laws (as applied to civilians) to state and local law enforcement / government agencies. In other words, LaRue Tactical will limit all sales to what law-abiding citizens residing in their districts can purchase or possess.

Templar Custom of North Carolina is a North Carolina-based maker of precision rifles. CEO Bob Reynolds spoke with TheBlaze on Friday and reinforced the company’s position as posted on Facebook.

We will not sell arms to agents of the state of New York that hold themselves to be “more equal” than their citizens.

As long as the legislators of New York think they have the power to limit the rights of their citizens, in defiance of the Constitution, we at Templar will not sell them firearms to enforce their edicts.

Online retailer Cheaper Than Dirt stepped up with a supportive statement on their Facebook page on Friday the 15th.

Recently, companies such as LaRue Tactical and Olympic Arms have announced that they will no longer sell prohibited items to government agencies and personnel in states that deny the right to own those items to civilians. It has been and will continue to be Cheaper Than Dirt’s policy to not to sell prohibited items to government agencies and/or agents in states, counties, cities, and municipalities that have enacted restrictive gun control laws against their citizens. We support and encourage other companies that share in this policy.

In addition to these very public statements, gun-owner groups have been promoting these statements while also asking members and fans to contact three other manufacturers with significant sales to law enforcement in New York. One such group, Guns Save Lives, is actively asking people to write letters / emails to Sig Sauer, Smith & Wesson, and Glock and pressure them to stop selling to police in New York. Those three companies happen to be the trio of manufacturers recommended by the NYPD for use by their officers.

Calls and email inquires about any changes to their law enforcement sales policies have not been returned by Glock, Sig Sauer, and Smith & Wesson. If there is any additional information available, we will update this story.

(H/T: NC Gun Blog)

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Comments (553)

krjones
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:30pm
Sweet! I salute these company’s. Will purchase from only company’s that take this stance.

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Saff SGT
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:29pm
hey 64.5 million Guns sold in USA for the year of 2012, thats a lot of help if the stuff starts maybe you can get i million to help thats 1/60th but they can do a lot of defending before its all over

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FightingBear
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:28pm
We need the big boys to follow suit on this (Ruger, S&W…)

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Saff SGT
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:27pm
save ammo if you can wait for the attacking Liberals to line up if you have Buckshot then fire you may get 2 or 3 in one shot, conserve to kill some more attackers

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bartjoebob
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:26pm
BFD… until Ruger, Smith and Wesson, and Glock step up and refuse… there will be hardly any impact to LEOs in NY. And that’s not factoring that there are 100s up upstart gun makers who would jump at a moments notice to be the exclusive maker of firearms for NYC LEOs

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Saff SGT
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:24pm
SW is so left Wing forget them they are 50% Communist

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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:19pm
Now if we can just get the ammo manufacturers to do the same thing, which includes DHS as well as LE, the little guys might be able to buy some ammo for his pea shooters.

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Thundergod
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:19pm
The biggest manufacturers probably have their hands tied by contracts with the US government,and breach of those contracts and the lawsuits that would follow would probably ruin those companies. I’d be very surprised to see Smith and Wesson,Colt,Glock or Sig Sauer to follow this lead as they all have contracts with various LE agencies across the country to supply arms and they would be sued at the direction of the DOJ to make an example of any who oppose the will of the communist in chief.

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ronin_6
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:19pm
Well done. Now support them with a purchase or two. While you still can anyways.

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fingerprintguy
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:18pm
I made this suggestion a few weeks ago. Glad to see that there are important people who think like I do. We need to back this up with our purchases though. Civilian sales are the bread and butter for all gun manufacturers. If we stop buying from those that refuse to come on board, then they will get the message too.

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skippy6
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:18pm
Hats off to those businesses!! Hopefully others will follow!!!!

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moosebeeusa
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:18pm
The government could ask for their guns back from the Mexican Cartel..:)

haha

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wmcritter
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:17pm
It would be nice if the major manufacturers (Colt, Beretta, S&W, Springfield, etc.) also had the courage to do this. What would be even better is if all the ammo manufacturers boycotted the entire government. The feds just bought 1 billion rounds of ammo and have 1 billion rounds more on order. We are literally giving them the ammo with which to kill us and take our liberty.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:21pm
  Bingo! ^This^
  
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maggiepie
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:16pm
NYPD uses 9mm S&W and GLOCKS. These makers have to get on board.
All gun makers should follow suit: S&W, Colt, Ruger.
Kudos to those already standing up to ridiculous. Keep guns out of
the hands of the criminals not law abiding citizens.

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:07pm
Where the hell was Taurus, Berreta, Smith/Wesson, Ruger, Colt, Sig Sauer, Glock etc, etc?

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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eric55
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:05pm
Its time for Glock and Smith & Wesson to do the same that would be the 1-2 punch

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TyrannyNoMore
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:04pm
This is a great first step ! Now lets urge the gun manufacturers to stop sales to any security firm, public or private, which provides armed protection for anti-Second Amendment politicians.

I truly hope these gun makers have the courage of their convictions, because you know King Husein is going to implement his Chicago thug tactics against the CEOs and other gun company officers now.

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bryan1969
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:02pm
lets hope this sends the message that WE THE PEOPLE will not tolerate this kind of blatant disregard for the constitution. lets hope this opens the conversation that we need to have to fix the problem. but with the jackass’s running things i wont hold my breath

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LookMaNoHands
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 4:02pm
Email addresses:

publicsafetysales@sigsauer.com
dgrier@smith-wesson.com,
LE.info@glock.us

Email Sent:

We don’t live in a police state: If it can’t be sold to citizens, it should not be sold to State and local government.

As a law abiding gun owner and owner of several of your weapons, I am writing this email to inform you that unless your company ceases the sale of firearms to the state and local government(s) of NY, I will not purchase any more of your firearms and I will actively encourage all others to do so as well.

I encourage your company to stand proudly in defense of the 2nd amendment.

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CrazyChicken
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:59pm
My fellow American Patriots. As President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address this evening, I think it is imperative for someone to speak to the people that our President will not be addressing. You know who you are. We are Patriots of the United States of America. We are loud and we are proud.

MORE:
http://dcclothesline.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/the-state-of-the-revolution-address-february-12-2013/

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batteredtaxpayer
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:55pm
Support these manufacturers, buy there products! Malone Labe!

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another pucker
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:53pm
If your not with us…! Got this message from La Rue last week and was so glad to see it! I say to all gun manufacturers and distributors if you don’t take the stance that it’s either all or none you are only supporting the ones who are looking to take you down in the first place, and you are only arming the people who will be “the good little soldiers” when the shi+ hits the fan! Thank about that!
1. Why is the government loading up on “assault weapons”? and the ammo needed?
2. What were those “military trainings” in Miami and Houston, both very liberal areas, all about?
3. Search “Homeland Youth graduation and or corps” The Fema HummVee’s have been personally
seen by a very trustworth friend on his drive back to Austin from the Gulf!

XOXOXO

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tp517
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:52pm
Don’t sell guns to the security agencies that provide security to these politicians in these states and municipalities.

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DefyTYRANNY
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:52pm
I own Firearms from Sig Sauer, Glock, and Smith and Wesson. They are the main suppliers and preferred manufacturers for Law Enforcement firearms. I have emailed all of them requesting that they stop doing business with Governmental Agencies in states with unconstitutional Gun Laws.

And I also let them know if they choose to continue to make sales to those agencies, they will lose my business.

Larue Tactical makes the best .308 AR type rifle out there. It is called the OBR.

I was strongly considering going with the Sig Sauer 716, but unless they get on board with banning these states as far as LE sales go, I will decide that the extra $1200 for the OBR is worth it.

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- DefyTYRANNY
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:54pm
  I need a R.I.S.R. for one of my AR’s that I have ordered the Leupold Mark AR scope for anyway. Throw a mini red dot on top of that, I’m golden.
  
  Plus I need some dillo dust and “Extremely Right Wing” bumper stickers anyway.
  
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Glock29
Posted on February 15, 2013 at 3:48pm
They just need the main manufactures to follow their lead. Next the ammo manufactures need to fall in line too. Make sure you support these companies and buy a little extra!

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