S.C. Company Sells Engraved “You Lie” Component For AR-15 Rifle

[The Night Owl]

Shocking but not surprising...

S.C. Company Sells Engraved “You Lie” Component For AR-15 Rifle

by Corey Hutchins, January 11th 04:07pm

A South Carolina gun and accessories company is selling semi-automatic rifle components inscribed with “You lie” – a tribute to the infamous words of 2nd District Republican Congressman Joe Wilson when he shouted at President Barack Obama during a congressional speech about national health care reform in the fall of 2009.

“Palmetto State Armory would like to honor our esteemed congressman Joe Wilson with the release of our new ‘You Lie’ AR-15 lower receiver,” reads a portion of the company’s website.

The product “is neither endorsed nor affiliated with Joe Wilson or his campaign,” according to a line of text at the bottom of the page. A picture of Wilson holding a rifle and standing in the company's gun shop appears on the same page. The company offers the components, marked “MULTI to accommodate most builds,” for $99.95 apiece.

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Article: http://www.free-times.com/index.php?cat=1992209084141467&act=post&pid=11861101110850039

Palmetto State Armory website: http://palmettostatearmory.com/1750.php

Google cache of Palmetto State Armory website: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:GlTtdrxGOoIJ:palmettostatearmory.com/1750.php+http://palmettostatearmory.com/1750.php&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Please, inform the media of what Palmetto State Armory is up to.

Update: Palmetto State Armory seems to have pulled its webpage featuring the "You Lie" gun component a few minutes ago.

[onehandle]

1. Virtually designed for assassination.

Nice timing.

[FreakinDJ]

2. Nice disclaimer from Wilson

but if it has nothing to do with Wilson or his statements - then why does it need a disclaimer

[emulatorloo]

5. And why is he posing in a picture with it?

[FreakinDJ]

17. Will they took that one down pretty quick

"Lucy - You got sum splainin to do"

[emulatorloo]

3. WTF?

This shit is wearing me out. They are RELENTLESS

[Kali]

4. wtf?

so shoot the "liar" um is this company trying to go bankrupt doing this right now? (or anytime - that has got to be just about the most disgusting, irrisponsible thing I have heard of for a gun company to do)

[Clio the Leo]

6. These would be for their guns that he's NOT taking away I presume? nt

[Canuckistanian]

7. You've got to be kidding me

:wow:

[vaberella]

8. Please send this to KO and in particular Rachel Maddow!! RM did a show last night on this.

She'd love to see how crazy our nation is. People are capitalizing on all these things.

[elizm]

16. KO just covered it. Nt

[The Night Owl]

9. Someone seems to be busy deleting links to the PSA "You Lie" gun component:

http://m4carbine.net/showthread.php?p=862804

[elizm]

10. Just think if you had to LIVE here. nt

[drm604]

11. When are we going to start arresting people who call for assasination?

:shrug:

[drm604]

12. They seem to have completely removed it from their website.

I can't find it.

[The Night Owl]

13. The idiots at PSA are probably calling Google right now...

...to see if they can get the cache of their page deleted.

:rofl:

[drm604]

14. It won't help.

They advertised it in gun forums all over the web.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Joe+Wilson+%22You+Lie%22+AR-15+Lower&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I don't think they can remove all of that.

[elizm]

15. KO just covered this on his show nt

[Nostradammit]

18. Your link to their site was not working for me.

I assume it was linking to a photo of said component - leads to a 404 error.


Here is a working link:

http://palmettostatearmory.com

[MaeScott]

19. Nothing on the left even equates to the hate on the right. Nothing. nt

[The Night Owl]

20. I wonder why PSA limited the quantity of the "You Lie" component to 999.

My guess is they're riffing on the whole Obama is the anti-Christ nonsense coming from elements of the religious right. 999 because 666 would be too obvious and not plausibly deniable.

[Enrique]

21. wonkette picked it up

:bounce:


here's screenshots from the website:

[Enrique]

22. Guess what? They're a Glenn Beck advertiser!

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101120027

How does Glenn Beck fit in? Palmetto State Armory has been a Beck advertiser. Here's audio of Beck calling them the "on-line source you've trusted for years," promoting on-air their "brand new store in the Midlands," and lauding their "stock of tactical firearms":

(audio at link)