Note to Ruger: Do Not Bend the Knee

Dear Ruger,

I know that you were recently called out by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong. Others have tried to turn the spotlight once fixed on Glock onto you. Why? Because they claim that full-auto switches also work with a model you make and sell, the RXM.

They want to turn up the pressure to force you to redesign your firearm, not because you have done anything wrong at any step along the way, but because third parties misuse these guns by attaching devices you never designed, manufactured, or sold. Full-auto switches can be put on this model of gun, apparently, and they want you to shoulder the blame.

Glock bent the knee. They redesigned their guns and did so in a way that supposedly prevents the devices’ use. Of course, it also looks like a Dremel tool would fix that, but they probably hope it’s enough to shield them from lawsuits.

I’m asking you not to go down that road.

I’m not just asking, I’m begging you. Please, no matter what, do not bend the knee like Glock did.

I get why Glock did it, but I also have deep concerns over the precedent they set by doing it. Now, the anti-gun forces can see that with enough pressure, they really can force change among American gun manufacturers, even if those companies know they didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. Glock blinked, and now it’s your turn in the limelight.

While I have no doubt that it’s unpleasant to get all the negative press that Glock received, and that you likely will in the coming weeks and months, I’m urging you to hold firm.

The reason is that it won’t stop with the RXM.

Next, someone will find a way to convert something else into a full-auto firearm and again, the anti-Second Amendment people will act as if it’s the industry’s responsibility to redesign things. It will always be your fault, just like it was your fault when inner city gang-bangers shot up their neighborhoods and people got hurt. They didn’t buy the gun from you, but the people pushing you now sued you and your competitors then, blaming you for making the gun in the first place.

Do you think this is any different?

You make and sell AR-15-type rifles. Those, too, can be modified, and that will eventually draw their ire. They’ll try to make you change things or just stop making them, using the same language. The thing is, they’ll never be satisfied. 

Once they get a taste, they keep going until it’s clear that taste was all they could get.

We need you to hold firm, or else the game is up. This pressure will continue until everyone has folded completely to the anti-gun agenda.

But holding the line will likely be a smart business move in the long run. Gun rights supporters–which include most people who own more than one firearm, most likely–will respect any company that holds the line and reward them by looking to their product line first when in the market for something. Ruger has an extensive catalog of firearms that will benefit from being the golden boy among the pro-gun crowd.

Just something to consider, at least, but even if that doesn’t matter or you don’t think it would happen like that, I still urge you to refuse to bend the knee. They won’t stop. They’ll just pick another target, and it’ll be you again soon enough.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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