Their actions in the marketplace speak.
Maybe to you, but no, not to me they don't. The fact that they're taking advantage of existing laws to make money has zero to do with them urging congress to pass laws, *in order to make more money by handicapping their competition (Glock, CZ, HK, etc.), since Ruger's pistol's capacities sucked eggs and they were killing killed in the marketplace*. So in that sense, yes their actions in the marketplace DO speak quite loudly- they wanted the 10 round ban to help sales of their crappy-capacity pistols - and so they urged Congress to do this.
You may choose to ignore that, but it *is* cognative dissonance to do so. You are insisting that their apology for Uncle Bill's self-serving and horrendous comments be in a form that YOU choose.
Life doesn't work that way.
Yes, it does. If you screw over your customers, you APOLOGIZE and make amends. They have done nothing.
But those of us who're just looking for good values in firearms will continue to occasionally buy a Ruger
Absolutely, we should all *carefully* analyze the VALUE of the firearms. So let's do that: What you GET: A good firearm, at a low price. If that were the total extent of the bargain, ending there, then a Ruger would be a good value. But unfortunately, you also GET something else in exchange that you don't want, besides a good gun - you get a company which will take the profit that they just made off of YOU, and using those resources, engage in anti-gun activities such as encouraging Congress to pass gun bans. It's patently obvious to me from their attitude that they haven't changed a bit, and they can and will (mark my words) wholeheartedly jump right on top of the next ban that comes down the pike that will be financially expedient for them to endorse (like the last one). Fool me once, shame on Ruger; Fool us gun owners twice, shame on you who support them. The 2nd fooling WILL be coming along sooner or later. You can try to justify all you want, but the fact remains that by feeding that monster, you are contributing to an anti-gun, anti-self-defense, anti-freedom mentality which is a scourge and a cancer among the SAAMI companies and the industry in general.