Department of Defense Acquisition of Firearms to Further Public Safety Practices!?!
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 4 months ago
What?
If that sounds weird, it is. To be completely fair, as you watch the video, it doesn’t say exactly what he says it says, at least not in direct terms. There is nothing about modern sporting rifles in the executive order, but you have to know that the DoD isn’t going to be purchasing Beretta 694s or Marlin lever action rifles. The exact wording is found in the order he links.
- Use the Department of Defense’s acquisition of firearms to further firearm and public safety practices. The Department of Defense buys a large number of firearms and other weapons to protect and serve our country. The President is directing the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement principles to further firearm and public safety practices through Department of Defense acquisition of firearms, consistent with applicable law.
The controllers think it’s safer for you if the DoD buys all the guns rather than you. So that’s where your tax money will be going. Getting DoD contracts will involve the stipulation that the company doesn’t sell to civilians, I’m sure. Frankly, Colt serves as the poster child for that experiment. I would expect a company like Knight’s Armament to continue to focus on military contracts as they do now. If you think that a company like Ruger, Daniel Defense, BCM, Aeroprecision, Rock River Arms, etc., are going to destroy their future by inking a 2-year contract (who knows what will happen to this after the election), that would likely be a huge error. My assessment: I don’t expect to see much come of this.
On June 26, 2023 at 11:07 pm, PGF said:
If that is indeed the plan I’m not surprised. Scarcity is inflationary, as we’ve all seen first hand with ammunition. Expect the same for firearms. It’s a tax to separate the common man from access to firearms and a downstream affect will be zero parts or outrageous prices for parts. Gun control through scarcity and price.
On June 27, 2023 at 5:15 am, jrg said:
Sneaky back door method of gun control. If you have it, others can’t. Not sure how this is going to effect the firearms already in citizens possession. If the Federal Government think this ‘Buy Before Others’, they are doing some serious mis-calculating.
On June 27, 2023 at 10:09 am, George said:
Same approach as the gubment used with satellite agencies buying boatloads of ammo.
devious those commies.
On June 27, 2023 at 3:24 pm, X said:
I THINK it means they are going to try to leverage DoD contracts to enact gun control (i.e., tell Colt that they have to quit selling M-4s on the civilian market as a condition of getting a DoD contract? Tell SIG that if they want the DoD contract they can’t sell 17-rd mags to the public?)
On June 27, 2023 at 3:29 pm, Herschel Smith said:
Yes of course. That’s exactly what they mean, which is why my observations point out that I don’t think BCM, RRA, etc., will want to forever swear off selling to the public. Military contracts are fickle critters.
On June 27, 2023 at 5:32 pm, X said:
Agree. I think the guy in the video interpreted and framed it wrong.
Of course that EO is kind of open-ended so it leaves a lot of latitude for the DoD to screw with civilian gun ownership. One possible example: prohibiting the ammo manufacturers who get the contract to run the Lake City plant from selling 5.56 and 7.62 to the public. This has been a huge source of cheap ball ammo in the past.
Remember also the powder and primer manufacturers are heavily dependent upon military contracts. It is generally not well-known that there are VERY few smokeless powder facilities in the U.S. and the military contracts get top priority. ALL extruded rifle powders are imported. All of them. The U.S. military uses ball powder almost exclusively and the primary facility for both civilian and military production is St. Mark’s.
The fact is that the gun and ammo industry is simply not that big, and government contracts are are very important, particularly for the ammo industry. Arms and ammo manufacturing is the choke point they can try to use to strangle civilian ownership.
On June 28, 2023 at 1:59 am, Steve Miller said:
As the man said, a precursor to genocide
On June 29, 2023 at 9:35 am, Latigo Morgan said:
Plenty of folks are still mad at Smith & Wesson for the Klinton deal, even though they aren’t even still owned by the ones who signed onto that one. However; they still insist on that dang hole in the side of their revolvers, to remind everyone of that deal they made way back then.
On June 29, 2023 at 5:24 pm, Allen said:
I’m curious how Barret responds to this.