Couple o'points… Sturm Ruger is a publicly-traded corporation, the only gun company around who was until Smith & Wesson went public last year.
It's currently being run by a former USSS guy named Stutler, as major a "johnson" as ever there was. (He was, sad to say, a kick in the slats away from getting axed by Papa Bill's son-in-law from his deathbed about ten years back, but the son-in-law passed away before the termination notice could be executed.) Why anyone would possibly think that Ruger's policies would die with him, is extremely naïve.
But you are on the money, Jeff, when you state that "Their interest is in the sporting application of firearms, primarily hunting. " Are you aware of the relationship between Sturm Ruger and National Shooting Sports Foundation, your and my host ten days ago? NSSF still doesn't allow any sort of humanoid targets displayed, and only last year allowed anything overtly anti-personnel exhibited, and then only in the segregated "LE Section."
BTW: Ruger did sell 30-round Mini-14 magazines commercially for about two years in the mid-80s, then went back to his restrictive policy.