When a business decision gets passed off as virtue signaling

[friendly_iconoclast]

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/20/762640053/colt-suspends-manufacture-of-controversial-ar-15-for-civilian-market


Colt Suspends Manufacture Of Controversial AR-15 For Civilian Market

Veilleux said the decision to halt manufacture of the AR-15 for the civilian market came because "high-volume contracts" from the military and law enforcement were "absorbing all of Colt's manufacturing capacity for rifles."

Hours after the statement was released, the Department of Defense announced that it had awarded Colt a $41.9 million contract to manufacture rifles for sales to militaries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Oceania and the Caribbean.

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/1966024/

Colt's Manufacturing Co. LLC, West Hartford, Connecticut, was awarded a $41,924,594 firm-fixed-price Foreign Military Sales (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Federated States of Micronesia, Hungary, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Palau, St. Vincent and Grenadines, and Tunisia) contract for production for the M4 and M4A1 carbines. One bid was solicited with one bid received. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 18, 2024. U.S. Army Contracting Command, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (W15QKN-19-D-0116).

[wasupaloopa]

1. Colt made my M16A1 that I carried in Vietnam. I often slept with it. Good company back then.

Also my 1911 45 automatic

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. When it...

...smells like BS, falls flat like BS...

...it's probably not a duck.

[wasupaloopa]

3. They never said their decision was out of virtue it was a business decision

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

4. Exactly

[sarisataka]

5. I am honestly surprised

Shannon Watts has not claimed credit for this yet.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

12. Probably it will happen in my life time.

[keithbvadu2]

6. AR-15, The weapon of choice for killing schoolchildren.

AR-15, The weapon of choice for killing schoolchildren.

[Straw Man]

7. Uh-huh.

Couldn't be done without one, right?

[krispos42]

8. Sure, we'll go with that

The ratio of handgun murders to rifle murders is about 20:1, but hey, facts have no place with regard to feelings!

[keithbvadu2]

9. So you're using the straw man argument that 20 of those 21 are school children.

So you're using the straw man argument that 20 of those 21 are school children.

Good one!

[krispos42]

10. I'm doing no such thing

With handguns being used in fully half of all murders, I'd say that your previous statement is just talking-point feelings-driven pablum.

But go on, explain to the audience how the majority of school-age children are murdered with AR-15s.

[friendly_iconoclast]

11. You stymied a blatant attempt at moral panic-mongering with an inconvenient truth

Peddlers of pious fraud deserve little respect.