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   From: gp@dont-email.me   
      
   Ohio-based MKS, whose products include Hi-Point Firearms and   
   Inland M1911s, have announced they won’t sell to Dick’s and   
   their affiliates on Second Amendment grounds.   
      
   MKS said the recent move by Dick’s to hire a government affairs   
   group for the purpose of gun control lobbying, coupled with the   
   big box retailer’s past choices to destroy their existing   
   inventory of AR-15s and refuse firearm sales to those under age   
   21 put the two companies at odds when it came to the right to   
   keep and bear arms.   
      
   “In recent months, Dick’s Sporting Goods and its subsidiary,   
   Field & Stream, have shown themselves, in our opinion, to be no   
   friend of Americans’ Second Amendment,” said Charles Brown, MKS   
   president. “We believe that refusing to sell long guns to adults   
   under age 21, while many young adults in our military are not   
   similarly restricted, is wrong. We believe that villainizing   
   modern sporting rifles in response to pressure from uninformed,   
   anti-gun voices is wrong. We believe that hiring lobbyists to   
   oppose American citizens’ freedoms secured by the Second   
   Amendment is wrong.”   
      
   Founded in 1992, Hi-Point specializes in economical handguns and   
   pistol caliber carbines while Inland, launched in 2014, produces   
   a series of classic military firearms including variants of the   
   M1911 pistol and M1 Carbine. According to federal regulators,   
   MKS’s Ohio production partners — Haskell Manufacturing, Iberia   
   Firearms, and Strassells Machine — produced 147,400 handguns and   
   58,600 rifles in 2016, making it one of the largest gun makers   
   in the country by volume.   
      
   “We are proud of our products, we are proud of our customers,   
   and we are especially proud of the freedoms secured by our great   
   U.S. Constitution. We are committed to all three,” said Brown.   
      
   The public snub from MKS comes just a week after Illinois-based   
   Springfield Armory issued a similar declaration and the National   
   Shooting Sports Foundation– the trade group for the gun industry   
   — expelled Dick’s from their organization.   
      
   https://www.guns.com/2018/05/09/more-gun-makers-break-ties-with-   
   dicks-sporting-goods/   
       
      
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