There’s an old saying that if you give someone with bad intent an inch, they’ll take a mile.
That certainly seems to be the case with Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety.
See, in California, the anti-2A zealots in the California government banned most currently produced Glock pistols due to illegal modifications (that Glock doesn’t sell) that people are making to Glocks.
What was Glock’s reply? It was to stop producing most of their current pistols.
Was that Glock being unwilling to fight? I’d actually suggest that what really happened is that Glock realized that they didn’t have the resources to stand up to the California government, and they wanted to keep the business in California, so they made the change.
That wasn’t enough for Everytown, though (hat tip to here for the lead). Scott Witner writes,
Everytown for Gun Safety has now set its sights on Sturm, Ruger & Co., calling on the American gunmaker to stop producing its new RXM pistol, just weeks after Glock announced plans to discontinue several of its most popular handguns amid ongoing lawsuits and legislative pressure from anti-gun activists.
In a letter sent on Monday, Everytown’s chief litigation counsel, Eric Tirschwell, told Ruger that the company should “put public safety first” by either removing the RXM pistol from the market or redesigning its internal trigger system. The group claims the RXM shares a trigger mechanism similar to Glock’s so-called “cruciform” design; a part that Everytown argues makes both brands’ pistols vulnerable to illegal modification with so-called switches or auto sears.
Let’s be honest: we all knew that this was coming, that the anti-2A zealots wouldn’t stop with just Glock having to bow down to an anti-2A government to be able to continue selling firearms there.
And if this isn’t nipped in the bud right now, anti-2A zealots will continue to harass law-abiding firearms manufacturers in America.
And the American people deserve better than that.