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Firearms cause so much harm that it makes you wonder why they were ever invited into human history in the first place. They feel like an invention that arrived already heavy with consequences, already louder than our ability to fully understand them. Yet when you step back and follow their origins, the story isn’t always … Continue reading Weapons Invented With Good Intentions: Disturbing Facts From Firearm History
The ceremonial handguns carried by Sentinel NCOs at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier are highly unique and customized SIG SAUER M17s of which 4 exist. Made with nods to history such as grips made from wood off the USS Olympia, the ship that transported the original Unknown back in 1921.
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A group of British schoolchildren ran their own international arms dealership during their lunch break. They bought and sold military weaponry to armies and militias around the world. This was 100% legal. The students focused on brokerage, which is basically acting as a middleman. For example, someone in the UK could broker AK-47s direct from […]
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On a visit to Constantinople, Samuel Colt gave a custom gold inlaid revolver to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and informed him that the Russians were buying his pistols. The Turkish ordered 5,000 pistols. Colt neglected to tell the Sultan that he had used the same tactic with the Russians.
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In the Wild West, it was most common for 6-shot revolvers to only be loaded with 5 rounds (the ‘Cowboy Load’). A live bullet in the chamber below the hammer of a 19th century single-action revolver can be set off with a sharp knock, hence it was not desirable to carry one fully loaded.
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According to secret service agents, Ronald Reagan carried a pistol in his briefcase when he was president, “just in case you guys can’t do the job, I can help out”. Reagan acquired a pocket sized pistol after college in the 1930s “and kept it lovingly the rest of his life”.
According to Texas Bankruptcy laws, you can keep 1 house, 1 car, 1k use limit in bank account, a bible or other religious text, and 2 guns.
The debate over gun control has reached a fever pitch in recent years, but it also feels like not much has been accomplished. You can point the finger in any direction you want to, but it’s a combination of many factors: politicians, big business, the NRA, shareholders, etc.
And as mass shootings continue to plague our country, Americans from all backgrounds grow more and more frustrated at the lack of action on gun legislation.
One CEO of a major company has decided to take a major step to prove that he and his company value human life over profits. Even though it cost his business an estimated $250 million, Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack permanently removed all assault-style rifles from 729 stores in 47 states in the U.S. in February 2018 after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida.
Dick's Sporting Good's C.E.O. Ed Stack on permanently removing all assault-style rifles from stores- "To think about the loss and the grief that those kids and those parents had, we said, ‘We need to do something, and we’re taking these guns out of all of our stores permanently." pic.twitter.com/PvoG9unnqL
— Matt Keller (@MattKellerABC7) February 28, 2018
In addition to that bold move, Ed Stack also recently announced that his company actually destroyed $5 million worth of assault weapons last year after it stopped selling them in stores.
(1,2) Thank you @Morning_Joe for this segment today. I do not have many heroes left these days. With that said, CEO Ed Stack of @DICKS is a hero to me. His decisions to LEAD and change the discussion on gun safety is a model for all corporate and political leaders. pic.twitter.com/x9MceThPb7
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) October 9, 2019
Stack said he had the option to send the weapons back to the manufacturer for an 80%-85% refund or Dick’s could have tried to liquidate their inventory quickly through discounts. Stack recalled, “We’re in this meeting and I said, ‘We can’t do that.’ We think these guns should be outlawed. We think that the ban that was in place between 1994 and 2004 should be reinstated.”
"Everything we've done, we've looked at through the lens of the kids…We believe the country's most precious natural resource is our kids." – Ed Stack, @DICKS CEO https://t.co/9xQCEezaUZ
— Everytown (@Everytown) October 9, 2019
Stack said he knew the weapons would end up out on the street if he chose either of those options, so they decided to destroy all the guns. Many people praised Stack’s decision but of course there was blowback from firearms manufacturers and NRA supporters.
Bravo, Mr. Stack. Let’s see if other CEOs and politicians will follow his lead.
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David “Carbine” Williams, who helped invent the M1 Carbine, was a convicted murderer and created innovative gun ideas while in jail. He was convicted of the shooting of a sheriff who busted his illegal moonshine still. He was released after his family argued his inventions could help America.
Do this mental exercise with me… imagine that your best friend calls you up and randomly invites you on a road trip. You’d say yes, right?
And then you find $40,000 worth of heroin.
I’m not going to give anything else away because ALL of this is edge-of-your-seat reading.
So, what did you think about Shane’s story? Would you have done the same?
Oh, you wouldn’t have? ME NEITHER!!!!!
Jeezus…
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