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At least they were accurate and didn’t screw it up. LOL
My bandwith is safe. 🙂
UPDATE: Since Eliot Spitzer mentioned that the members of MAIG should also join the Coercive Gun Purchasing program, I checked the numbers to include all LEOs in the US. in 2008 there were 593,000 police officers (Local & State) and 120,000 Federal Law Enforcement Officers as per the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Than bring the LEO number to 713,000 and total number of possible guns to buy for both all US Military and all US LEO to 3,713,000 or about 2 months and a week worth of gun purchases if we go by last year’s NICS checks.
Now, this is just seen from the point of view of one gigantic purchase order. The reality is that it cannot happen that way for several reasons:
Firearms come with a very long expiration date set in several decades. And that is if they are used hard and heavy. Only active service military engaged in firefights would be included in this statistic. Most LEOs never use their firearm in the line of duty and if so, we are not talking about long protracted firefights with thousands of rounds spent. The only other group that uses guns in a regular basis are the Civilians and even so it is not unusual that guns last and are passed from generation to generation. Taxpayers would probably revolt at the idea that their local LEOs needed brand new sidearms every year and even the most pro-gun congress would laugh at the request for funding for Federal LEOs every year. So, a gigantic purchase order for 3,713,000 firearms would be a one time in a decade or two making of even lower impact. Also, the “old” firearms would probably end in the open market and sold gun dealers that will sell them to civilians as police trade-ins for a very cheap price denying the original idea of reducing the number of guns in the hands of citizens.
Firearms Manufacturers probably will not bend over the requirement espoused by Spitzer because it would mean angering a very loyal clientele. Tomkins PLC (a British company) bought Smith & Wesson in 1987. In 2000 they entered in a deal with the Clinton Administration and “agreed to numerous safety and design standards, as well as limits on the sale and distribution of their products.” The consumer backlash & boycott was so effective that Tomkins PLC sold Smith and Wesson a year after signing the agreement with the Clinton Administration for bout 10 cents on the dollar. Rest assured that this lesson is firmly imprinted in the minds of Gun Companies CEOs and at the end of the day, just like any business, they are in place to make money and not to placate cheap political activism.
I and many others in the Gun Culture find both amazing and repulsive that people with no experience whatsoever in firearms fancy themselves as experts on the “gun problem.” It is pathetically obvious that Eliot Spitzer’s knowledge about the gun industry is almost nil and based on deluded political fantasies that Gun Control is something that the American Citizens want by a large majority. We have come a long way since the Clinton years but some appear to be still stuck there and, let’s hope they stay there. The amount of harm they can create will be almost zero.
So you have ten seconds of fame left?
It was supposed to be 14 minutes and 55 seconds left, but in this era of interwebs, you only get 15 seconds. Inflation is a horrible thing.
The blog did not look too bad on TV, but the camera added 5 points to the font size.
Congrats! And you’re right on the money.
You were given the last word, that’s pretty powerful! Good Work, Miguel!!
Also I’d love to see people enact this! The federal level will never happen as Colt, Remingtion, Glock, Sig and S&W will refuse in the initial talks and the .gov will simply bury it…..but I’d love to see police departments protesting as their guns fall apart as parts and service dry up because the gun makers told them to go piss into the wind.
Essentially Spitzer is demanding all gun makers do to him what Ron Barret did to California.
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Blog updated to reflect new numbers.
And thanks for the kind words people! 🙂
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Do it in New York State first and let`s see what happens 🙂
I have this image of Bloomy going to gun shows and buying every .40 cal pistol he can find to equip his police. At full retail. And then I woke up…
I watched the video and then had a celebratory moment, then a moment of concern: If the Government Experts are that ill-infomed and enamored with their own ideas, maybe we should encourage that. “Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake”.
Bingo!
You are making a dent, Miguel.
Spitzer is an elitist hypocrite who for years prosecuted people for crimes he was caught doing red handed. He should have been tagged as a criminal with the same consequences to which us proles are subjected to.
But no. Instead he’s offered a CNN slot, which fortunately fails miserably. He’s now a professor teaching public policy. He has a show on Current TV. Yet here we are. The press falling all over themselves to broadcast his expert opinion on a subject on which he is clueless. Hell, why not offer Marion Barry the slot of director of national drug control policy?
Congrats Miggy!
It was a nice application of Unicorn-Bane.
You would think after having an idea (one) for ten years, he would have, ummm, actually thought about it sometime?
Congrats for making the big time! Plus, you didn’t even get smeared. Unusual for NBC.
Very cool. Congrats!