Sipsey Street Irregulars: Armalite waffles, Ronnie Barrett stands tall.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Armalite waffles, Ronnie Barrett stands tall.

ArmaLite Will Continue to Sell Rifles to Law Enforcement Officers in States That Ban Them for Citizens

By contrast, here's Barrett's "Position regarding the assault on liberty."

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Anonymous said...: I WAS going to buy the new 338 Lapua they came out with. I'm not just saying that to blow wind, I actually WAS going to buy one. Does Barrett make a bolt action 338LAP in same price range?
DixieDennis; February 21, 2013 at 8:33 AM
A Texan said...: Time to boycott Armalite.

The whole point of a company that sells firearms and/or accessories refusing to sell ANY of its prohibited items to ANY law enforcement personnel (regardless of need or stance on the 2A) is to put pressure on the states/cities in question to restore the 2A. The only way to pressure these Constitution-violating governments is to make them feel the pain through their agents, i.e. the police, etc. Several manufacturers have stepped up to the plate and are standing with the ordinary citizens of this country...but not Armalite.

Continuing to sell citizen-banned weapons and accessories to state/city employees is akin to helping the German war effort during WW2, even though the individual soldiers receiving the arms may not have agreed with state policy. It should be noted that 12 directors of the famous Krupp arms company were indicted for, and 11 convicted of, war crimes for aiding the armament of the Nazi regime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_Trial

We gun owners WILL NOT FORGET how the various arms manufacturers acted during this difficult time for our 2nd Amendment rights.; February 21, 2013 at 9:35 AM
Anonymous said...: Armalite is now on my "prohibited persons" list along with Smith & Wesson and Cheaper Than Dirt. As with the federal "prohibited persons" list, there is no way to get off once you earn your spot.

Bye, Armalite!; February 21, 2013 at 10:26 AM
Hefferman said...: I guess my new Ar will be a custom build, because I will not buy anything from armlite again.
I have two AR-10s and extra mags, but will never spend another dime with armlite.; February 21, 2013 at 12:23 PM
Anonymous said...: I like that suggestion for a bumper sticker:

"When you need to kick down citizens doors to sieze the guns they should not have, make sure your Storm Troopers are carrying ArmaLite products. ArmaLite, the one choice for all your citizen controlling fascist needs"

Notice - neither Colt nor DPMS have come out with a position yet, though Adam Ballard at DPMS did go before the MN legislature on the 6th regarding their HF241:
http://www.ar15armory.com/forums/index.php/topic/133051-dpms-testimony-against-hf241/; February 21, 2013 at 1:41 PM
Anonymous said...: ArmaLite....at least we know their position.
ArmaLite is now on MY anti-Constitutionalist target list.
When the SHTF, I fully intend to be posting rounds downrange from the ArmaLite scary rifles that I have appropriated from the chickenchit LEO's that dropped them and ran when the rounds from my M24 started taking names from 600 meters.
They really don't think we're going to fight for the Constitution, do they?
III/0317; February 21, 2013 at 5:02 PM
SWIFT said...: Want an Armalite? Take the advice of Sergeant Major Plumley in the movie "We Were Soldiers", when Col. Hal Moore suggests that he get a rifle. Plumley tells Moore, "I figure there will be plenty of them lying on the ground when I need one."; February 21, 2013 at 7:06 PM
Anonymous said...: Anyone who knows anything about AR-15s knows that the new "Armalite" (not the Stoner Armalite company) make inferior quality rifles.

They weren't ever going to get a single penny from me anyway, but now that vow is sealed in blood.; February 21, 2013 at 11:56 PM
Anonymous said...: All 4 of mine are Rock River LAR-15's. Excellent rifles.

Armalite may wear the name of the platform's originator, but they are certainly not the only quality source today. Check out Rock River Arms.

http://www.rockriverarms.com/; February 22, 2013 at 8:21 AM
BillInLexington said...: Previous to this, I had no intention of making a purchase from Barrett. I just wasn't willing to drop that much money on a firearm.

Now I am.

DHS bought up all the ammo ... but if this trend keeps up, what are they going to shoot it out of?; February 22, 2013 at 6:03 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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