When storied handgun maker Glock capitulated to gun-ban zealots and redesigned its pistol design—one of the crucial fashionable in U.S. historical past—we knew it could solely be a matter of time earlier than different gunmakers had been focused.
Everytown Targets Ruger RXM Pistol
Nicely, it didn’t take lengthy. On November 3, so-called Everytown for Gun Security—a gun-ban group that cares extra about anti-gun legal guidelines than security—despatched a letter to Sturm, Ruger & Co. threatening firm leaders in the event that they don’t change the design on one in all their fashionable handguns.
RXM In The Crosshairs
At subject is the Ruger RXM, a collaboration between Ruger and Magpul. The pistol has a design similar to the Glock design, therefore it may be illegally transformed to fireplace full-auto. I say illegally, after all, as a result of it’s a federal felony to take action.
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Nonetheless, gun-ban teams like Everytown all the time concentrate on the firearm, not the felon. Therefore their concentrating on of the RXM.
“Ruger claims to be a ‘mannequin of company and neighborhood accountability,’” the letter said. “For that to be greater than an empty promise, and for the explanations set forth extra absolutely beneath, Ruger should pull the RXM from the market except and till it modifications the pistol’s design. We name on the corporate to take action instantly.”
After eight pages of rambling on about how the RXM will be transformed to fireplace full-auto, by felon after all, Everytown lastly bought to the purpose.
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“Ruger faces a selection following Glock’s current announcement: Will it proceed to distribute and promote the RXM regardless of the proof of its ease of convertibility to an unlawful machine gun, or will it put public security first?”
The letter concluded, “To make sure that Ruger doesn’t exacerbate the alarming proliferation of lethal DIY machine weapons throughout American cities and states, we urge you to take the one accountable plan of action and take away the Ruger RXM from the market except and till you modify the pistol’s design.”
States Get In On The Act
In fact, anti-gun state leaders had been fast to leap on the most recent goal of gun-ban advocates.
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On November 10, Connecticut Legal professional Normal William Tong wrote a letter to Ruger warning firm leaders of doable authorized motion in the event that they didn’t scrap or redesign the RXM.
“If the RXM will be simply transformed to a machine gun by the attachment of a (machine gun conversion system), and movies my Workplace has seen point out that it will probably, Ruger’s pursuit of income over security could also be in violation of FIRA and CUTPA,” Tong wrote, referring to the state’s Firearms Business Duty Act and Unfair Commerce Practices Act.
Finally, AG Tong requested a press release from Ruger relating to its plans for the RXM pistol and ordered the corporate to protect paperwork associated to conversions, violent crimes involving transformed weapons, advertising supplies, monetary data and the corporate’s consciousness of its authorized duties.
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What’s Subsequent
Whether or not or not Ruger will capitulate to Everytown’s and Tong’s threatening letters and redesign the RXM stays to be seen. In the event that they do, it’s a positive wager there’s already one other pistol on the gun-banners’ radar that they may goal subsequent.
