McRee’s Threatens To Sue Users Of Other Rifles
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 3 months ago
No, I’m not kidding.
If you purchase a rifle with an embedded cant indicator level from a source other than McRee’s Precision … it is not authorized by McRee’s and your may be liable for infringing McRee’s patents.
Oh dear. Will gun manufacturers never learn? The quickest way to make the entire gun community hate you is to threaten them. It’s even faster than supporting the gun controllers in your state to get special treatment, viz. RRA and Springfield. They didn’t threaten the infringers, but the people who purchased the products themselves. Good Lord.
Does anyone at firearms manufacturing companies know how to think one step ahead? Perhaps they should play chess for a while to learn the science of cause and effect.
On August 29, 2017 at 12:11 am, Ned said:
Pretty much off the list, along with thousands of other threatened consumers…
On August 29, 2017 at 8:51 am, Fred said:
I’ve never even heard of them but this solves all that. Screw me? Nope, screw you pal.
On August 29, 2017 at 11:31 am, I R A Darth Aggie said:
I’ve seen patent holders threaten users of “infringing” software with this crap. I used the scare quotes because none of them had the stones to follow thru when the people they threatened gave ’em the digital equivalent of “come and take it”.
Streisand Effect writ large.
On August 29, 2017 at 9:05 pm, Jeffersonian said:
Um, weren’t shooters using spirit levels as anti-cant devices on Sharps and Rolling Blocks and Winchester ’85s all the way back in the buffalo days?
And wouldn’t that put the whole concept of the device in the public domain?