This isn't the only forum to take a negative view of SA/RRA. The continued push to demonize them is interesting, considering they were at the NRA convention with a new CCW pistol being offered for sale.
Those who insist they were plotting to deprive IL citizens of their 2A rights and being totally evil about it until they got caught are winding up a conspiracy theory with no facts. If anything the businesses were just doing business - hired a lobbyist who reported to them when something happened. It was just one item on their very full plate managing an ongoing business along with family.
Oh, but NOOoooooooo, they were really undermining the Constitution by employing some political operative to ruin gun sales in IL at the first opportunity. Yes, that's it, their evil anti gun side was exposed - the two faced illegitimate sons of perdition were really sellouts making it harder for guns to be sold in their home state. Has to be, it's all right there in the news!
You really sure about that?
I see it as being out of touch with a rogue lobbyist who was hired to make deals and got handed one to make the gun industry look bad. Seems like politics as usual in that state, why that can't be possible is obviously less attractive than beating on the victims in this case - SA and RRA. Or at least yet to be proven they deliberately were throwing their customers under the bus.
Goes to the bill - adding excessive financial penalties to gun dealers, and their response at worst makes the law look like special interests got a free pass. In that case future litigation may well deep six the bill after it gets passed. Which, it hasn't yet. And may not be simply because of the shenanigans. This thing isn't even law yet.
Who is being hurt by this and who benefits? "I won't buy SA/RRA ever again!" means it's definitely an attack on a gun manufacturer, and the people with the torches and pitchforks are their own customers. What better deal to pull off by anti gunners than that? Again, we are talking POLITICS in an anti gun state, same as the one which had it's former Governor incarcerated for selling the legislative seat left by WHO? Obama.
If you think they aren't capable of pulling off this kind of stunt to make SA/RRA look bad you aren't well informed. They grow up some pretty anti American politicians there - the previous POTUS, duh. But go ahead, blame the gun makers for something they didn't agree to nor were they previously informed about it until they got blindsided by this in the news.
If you can't see the tell tale marks of Alinsky politics in this you aren't capable of understanding what we are really up against in the future. There is more to the war on us as gun owners than hiring Poly Science teachers to beat protesters with bike locks. The cloak rooms of legislature are their real battle grounds and it would seem they are getting one over on you.
Tell me how this doesn't justify what Glock said.