KAHR owns Auto-Ordnance.
Both are owned by a church-owned holding company. Justin Moon, the chief KAHR designer, is Reverend Moon's son.
My references to cults, relative to both religions, were made in line with previous posters' commentary & perceptions, and both religions do share cult-like behaviours as defined in more than one book on the subject.
Those inside them don't see them as cults, those outside frequently perceive them that way. I won't argue it, that's pointless & beyond the scope of the subject at hand.
My commentary was an effort to respond to the original poster's question, not to bash religion, either specific or general.
The Mormon church was brought up as a comparison, along with Browning, to the Moonies & spending money that benefits their church. My only purpose in mentioning the Mormons was to illustrate the difference in that context, as well as to illustrate in passing the parallel similarity in the popular conception of both being cults, or at least cultish, which is a demonstrated factor in the decision-making process concerning KAHR products for some.
I had & have no intentions of participating in a religious war, but I've lived in Utah for over 50 years, I do know that particular church directly.
People have a variety of reasons for buying or avoiding guns or product lines, and if one happens to be that they dislike the parent company who owns the maker, religious or otherwise, it's as good a reason as any. Some choose not to buy Chinese-made guns, refusing to "support" a Communist regime & what they consider "slave" labor. I don't particularly subscribe to that view myself, but I can respect it in others.
Discussion of reasons for not buying a brand are normally valid here, I'd think, as long as they don't wander too far afield & become personal, slanderous, vicious, or deteriorate into nothing more than vitriolic diatribe.
I've addressed the OP, I'm done with it.
Buy or don't buy KAHR products, based on whichever reasons apply in your own mind.
Join whichever church you prefer on the same basis.
Be Moonie, be Mormon, be neither, be nothing. Makes no difference to me.
Denis
