After Glock succumbed to public pressure in October and decided to discontinue most of its Gen 3 and Gen 4 pistol lineup, logic suggested that it was only a matter of time until the Bloomberg-funded anti-gun establishment turned their sights on other manufacturers, as it did this week.
On November 3, Everytown published an eight-page open letter, calling on Ruger to end production of its newly-released RXM pistol, a 3rd Gen Glock 19 clone, or face a lawsuit. Everytown claims that manufacturers have created “pocket machine guns.” They are leveraging Glock’s alleged capitulation (amidst numerous lawsuits) to redesign their firearms to no longer be able to be fitted with “switches,” which can increase the rate of fire. This is, however, already a crime – something the letter acknowledges in the first paragraph.
The letter claims that Ruger introduced the RXM:
…to mimic a Glock and to be customizable with the same aftermarket parts. As Ruger must have known, introducing such a design into the marketplace risks exacerbating the proliferation of illegal machine guns on the streets and further endangering American lives.
“Pistols easily converted to machine guns pose a public safety crisis,” says Everytown. However, their attempt to position this public relations attack as a matter of “public safety” is anything but. Their endgame is and always has been to ban civilian firearm ownership (Everytown for Gun Safety is a group that merged from Moms Demand Action and Mayors Against Illegal Guns in 2014). These public relations campaigns are simply their newest strategy in their attack on Second Amendment rights, along with injecting massive amounts of money to elect anti-gun politicians.
In the most recent elections, just this week, Everytown funded both Mikie Sherrill, in New Jersey, and Abigail Spanberger, in Virginia, to the tune of $1.5 million collectively, as we reported.
In 2008, Bloomberg, then-mayor of New York City and heavy backer of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, stated, “From the beginning, we have said that fighting illegal guns has nothing to do with the Second Amendment rights of Americans.” A Moms Demand Action post stated that they are, “…a nonpartisan group that consists of gun owners and non-gun owners alike. Moms is not anti-gun but is anti-gun violence. Moms believes that we can keep our families safe while honoring the rights of responsible gun owners.”
As they have in almost every other arena (relying on the population’s short memory), they have now shifted the goal posts. Neither Glock’s firearms nor Ruger’s firearms nor any other manufacturers firearms on the market are illegal. And they are owned by millions of responsible gun owners who commit no crimes every single day. Clearly, their agenda has shifted to a much more sophisticated attack using public pressure as a means to target manufacturers.
The end result is, of course, the same: fewer firearms available to the public as manufacturers bend the knee to pressure and the cost of mounting lawsuits.
Prominent YouTuber and gun rights advocate Mrgunsngear made the following observation about this announcement in a video message:
At the end of this day, this letter along with the threatened lawsuit, is just the next step by the anti-gunners to eliminate all semi-automatic firearms with standard capacity magazines, from circulation in America…. They will never stop until you are fully disarmed.
The only question is, who will Everytown target next?
