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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 03:28 PM Sep 2019

When a business decision gets passed off as virtue signaling

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).


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When a business decision gets passed off as virtue signaling (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Sep 2019 OP
Colt made my M16A1 that I carried in Vietnam. I often slept with it. Good company back then. wasupaloopa Sep 2019 #1
When it... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2019 #2
They never said their decision was out of virtue it was a business decision wasupaloopa Sep 2019 #3
Exactly discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2019 #4
I am honestly surprised sarisataka Sep 2019 #5
Probably it will happen in my life time. discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2019 #12
AR-15, The weapon of choice for killing schoolchildren. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #6
Uh-huh. Straw Man Sep 2019 #7
Sure, we'll go with that krispos42 Sep 2019 #8
So you're using the straw man argument that 20 of those 21 are school children. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #9
I'm doing no such thing krispos42 Sep 2019 #10
You stymied a blatant attempt at moral panic-mongering with an inconvenient truth friendly_iconoclast Sep 2019 #11
 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
1. Colt made my M16A1 that I carried in Vietnam. I often slept with it. Good company back then.
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 03:31 PM
Sep 2019

Also my 1911 45 automatic

keithbvadu2

(36,376 posts)
6. AR-15, The weapon of choice for killing schoolchildren.
Fri Sep 20, 2019, 09:18 PM
Sep 2019

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

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
8. Sure, we'll go with that
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 08:14 AM
Sep 2019


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

keithbvadu2

(36,376 posts)
9. So you're using the straw man argument that 20 of those 21 are school children.
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 12:21 PM
Sep 2019

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

Good one!

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
10. I'm doing no such thing
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 01:37 PM
Sep 2019

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

(15,333 posts)
11. You stymied a blatant attempt at moral panic-mongering with an inconvenient truth
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 07:08 PM
Sep 2019

Peddlers of pious fraud deserve little respect.

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