Olympic Arms announcement


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Olympic Arms – the Washington-based manufacturer of AR-15 type rifles and semiautomatic pistols – announced Tuesday that because of legislation passed recently in the state of New York, the company “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.”

Olympic joins other companies that have recently cut off business to various state agencies due to the adoption of firearms regulations. A letter, posted on the Olympic Arms Facebook page and provided to Examiner, is signed by company president Brian Schuetz, whose father started the business several years ago on the Nisqually Flats south of Fort Lewis.

In his letter, Schuetz wrote, “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entity or employee of such governmental entity within the State of New York - henceforth and until such legislation is repealed, and an apology made to the good people of the State of New York and the American people.”

Similarly, Extreme Firepower Inc., has issued a statement that they “…will not sell anything to the following local government agencies until their firearm and/or magazine restrictions have been repealed:
City of Chicago, Illinois
New York State
Washington, D.C.”

In California, according to EFI’s notice, only products that may be purchased by average citizens will be sold, and under no circumstances, will any products be sold to law enforcement or state agencies “until the California legislature repeals the gun control laws that have been enacted, as these entities have lobbied in favor of statewide gun bans.”

Recently, Mark LaRue at LaRue Tactical announced, “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.

“State and local laws have always been a serious focus of this firm,” he added, “and we are now dovetailing that focus with the constitutional rights of the residents covered in their different areas by the old and new regulations.”

Some years ago, Ronnie Barrett took the same position with his firearms business, the world-famous Barrett Firearms in Tennessee, which developed some of the most popular .50-caliber bolt-action and semi-auto long-range rifles in the world.

Olympic Arms today took the strategy one step farther, inviting “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.”

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If all firearm manufacturers get on board with this. It might make a difference.

But you know what will happen...The local PD's and LE will enlist the dark lords help and maybe even Eric Holder will come out personally and sell some parts and ammo. But ONLY if you belong to a Mexican Drug gang. Then you can get all the parts, guns and ammo you want.

If any PD is short on anything...Washington will step up and provide. Therefore getting them on board with a confiscation plan because they were rescued by the Feds.

This is a mostly symbolic move by gun makers. The same way the Feds caused a ammo shortage by a huge purchase...They are prepared for this reaction also.

Just one angle from here.

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But you know what will happen...The local PD's and LE will enlist the dark lords help and maybe even Eric Holder will come out personally and sell some parts and ammo. But ONLY if you belong to a Mexican Drug gang. Then you can get all the parts, guns and ammo you want.

If any PD is short on anything...Washington will step up and provide. Therefore getting them on board with a confiscation plan because they were rescued by the Feds.

Funny how that works, huh Anthony. Holder well prior to ever becoming AG gets up in front of cameras every opportunity he gets to tell how guns are bad and how anyone can go down to the gun show or local shop and pick up an "automatic" weapon, all the while after he is top cop the federal government is in the know on a program that is allowing true full auto's to go to very very bad people. Maybe just a little hipocritical?

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Regardless of the contingency plans that gov't agencies may or may not have in place, this has great merit and law-abiding gun owners should try to reward these companies with their patronage.

This would be huge if all the BIG manufacturers got on board like the makers of Colt, S&W, Bushmaster, Stag, Ruger, Glock, Remington, Benelli and others.

My hat is off to them and their support of our Constitution.

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well yea for them. i like it.

i'm guessing lots of the arms companies making guns back east will be moving out of state in the years to come. i sure would.

Steve, I really fear for this. The quaint little town of Ilion NY is about 100 miles from my home. The only real industry they have is Remington Arms. They employ nearly 1000 people there. If they close and move to one of their other plants the town here will fold up.

This would be a real shame and alot of history would be lost forever. I couldn't blame them though. I probably would have slammed the door shut the day our new gun control law passed.

I have visited the plant a couple times and love their museum. One of my good friends retired as product manager a few years back and I know the product manager there now. He doesn't know the fate of the business either.

I hope they stay put.

Lynn

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Steve, I really fear for this. The quaint little town of Ilion NY is about 100 miles from my home. The only real industry they have is Remington Arms. They employ nearly 1000 people there. If they close and move to one of their other plants the town here will fold up.

This would be a real shame and alot of history would be lost forever. I couldn't blame them though. I probably would have slammed the door shut the day our new gun control law passed.

I have visited the plant a couple times and love their museum. One of my good friends retired as product manager a few years back and I know the product manager there now. He doesn't know the fate of the business either.

I hope they stay put.

Lynn

i was thinking it was more like 1300-1400. the plant is practically 200 years old. it supports the economy out there and without it the area will fall on very hard times. forget the fact if you're for guns or against guns. remember that dozens of reps from the plant pleaded in front of Cuomo to reconsider and take another look at the NY SAFE ACT. they made it clear that the livelihood of them and their families is at stake. then without hesitation NY Gov Cuomo carried on with no remorse. he should be impeached for casting aside an entire region of the very state he was elected to serve and look after.

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i was thinking it was more like 1300-1400. the plant is practically 200 years old. it supports the economy out there and without it the area will fall on very hard times. forget the fact if you're for guns or against guns. remember that dozens of reps from the plant pleaded in front of Cuomo to reconsider and take another look at the NY SAFE ACT. they made it clear that the livelihood of them and their families is at stake. then without hesitation NY Gov Cuomo carried on with no remorse. he should be impeached for casting aside an entire region of the very state he was elected to serve and look after.

obama and the gun grabbing libs don't realize how much firearm and ammo manufacturers are contributing while we are struggling in this poor economy and to be honest they probably really don't care so long as they can further their agenda. Actually killing those jobs would likely put more folks in positions to be depdendant on the govt, hmmmm. That is one industry that has consistently done well since just prior to the 2008 election. Would be curious as to just how much revenue has been generated as a result of the increase in firearm and ammo sales.

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none of these companies WANT to pack up and move. but, it will soon be illegal for them to even make magazines over 6 rounds. they are literally being driven out by the anti gun nuts like your governor and legislature. conneticut and many other states will also be affected.

i'm sure the legislators know exactly what they are doing. just another american industry down the drain. remember twinkies? they just don't care. but, twinkies and remington will soon move to a user friendly state and your taxes will rise. i'm not happy about this, but reality is reality

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I believe the current administration would love to put gun and ammo manufacturers out of business. If you remember...It was the Clinton administration that changed all the rules regs and fees for FFL dealers. They put many a licensed legal small gun dealers out of business.

So the poisoning continues.

OK...so lets say BHO and his ilk have their wishes granted and they get all the ban/laws they want.

What is the reality of having these federal laws changed, if a new conservative is elected at the end of this prison sentence with Barry?

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i was thinking it was more like 1300-1400. the plant is practically 200 years old. it supports the economy out there and without it the area will fall on very hard times. forget the fact if you're for guns or against guns. remember that dozens of reps from the plant pleaded in front of Cuomo to reconsider and take another look at the NY SAFE ACT. they made it clear that the livelihood of them and their families is at stake. then without hesitation NY Gov Cuomo carried on with no remorse. he should be impeached for casting aside an entire region of the very state he was elected to serve and look after.

Thank you for the correction in numbers. I wasn't sure and didn't want to exagggerate. I guess I wouldn't make a good politician!

As they take away good jobs the politicians want to raise the minimum wage stifiling some smaller businesses and putting alot of unskilled workers out of work. This will bring about a whole new wave of entitlement receipents. More votes?

At the very least we will see more businesses leave and go off shore to survive.

Obamunism! Work hard, someone is depending on your hard earned dollars.

Lynn

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none of these companies WANT to pack up and move. but, it will soon be illegal for them to even make magazines over 6 rounds. they are literally being driven out by the anti gun nuts like your governor and legislature. conneticut and many other states will also be affected.

i'm sure the legislators know exactly what they are doing. just another american industry down the drain. remember twinkies? they just don't care. but, twinkies and remington will soon move to a user friendly state and your taxes will rise. i'm not happy about this, but reality is reality

Steve, love you to death BUT, PLEASE don't refer to Andrew Cuomo as MY governor. I did not vote for him, don't like him and didn't like his father at all.

Sorry, I just had to vent.

Lynn

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