You still have a chance to stand up and show yourselves to be true Americans – in this land of FREE SPEECH! Yes, Dan Cooper had every right to do what he did and your silencing of him by forcing his resignation, is only the first step in taking individual rights away. So you see, by virtue of the fact that you did not allow your company President to be who he was, completely within his constitutional rights, you have done more harm than good to erode our constitutional rights. Shame on you!

We never asked your company who it supported for President but you allowed the opinions of a few to dictate your policies. Trust me, you will lose far more than you will gain by ousting the founder of your once fine company.

Your actions have shown us that your policies are anti-constitutional and in reality, anti gun-ownership because you do not protect our rights equally. You are willing to bow to political pressure and that means that you have no backbone and that you blow whichever way the political wind is blowing. Study history, read your economics lessons, your recent actions, in the end, will hurt your company more than Dan Cooper ever did! In fact, if anything, Dan Cooper better promoted the interests of gun owners and gun ownership than anything else you’ve done in recent weeks and months.
Sham on you for being political, weak and ultimately, anti-constitution.

When Dan Cooper no longer owns a sizable chunk of the company, and the company comes clean about their untrue stantments regarding this mess and they clearly say that he (or they lied) about this, then I will CONSIDER buying from them — but I probably won’t. I still won’t buy anything from Smith & Wesson.

I also await to find out if Mr. Cooper actually steps down. With only 38 employees, I have a feeling he’s not exactly outnumbered and can still maintain control.

Are you planning on boycotting Dow Jones index stocks because leftist trust-fund kiddies might have some of their money there?

If he continues to run the company on the side, then that would be a different story.

Let’s face it, Cooper and Zumbo’s prime markets were (and are) “sport” hunters or “sport” target shooters. Much like the Brits, too many individuals in these communities tend to view guns as toys and their activity as a game. From their perspective, there is no contradiction between their ownership of firearms and their support for Obama. Such individuals would have no problem with a broad range of “common sense” gun control measures, with the implicit caveat that their particular “sport” would not be affected. That is: If laws against knives do not apply to “players” carrying swords at a Society for Creative Anachronism event, then laws against guns would not apply to “players” of “outdoor sports”.

This is how I grew to understand something that I observed just within the past month. A friend invited me to a private, outdoor range in northern VA. As he showed me about the property, we came upon the clay shooters doing their “sport”. Sure enough, parked in front of this clay shooting area were several vehicles with Obama ’08 bumper stickers. My first reaction, of course, was to comment to my friend, “These guys don’t see the irony, do they?” After thinking about it for a few days thereafter, it dawned on me that there was no irony to see: my assumptions did not apply. Since I don’t see firearms as “toys” and firearm use as a “game”, I see Obama as a threat to my rights as a gun owner. Clay shooters, outfitted with one-shot shotguns, wouldn’t care if Obama moved to ban “assault weapons” or handguns. Indeed, this would probably be a good thing, as their “sport” would become more dignified by shedding the unfortunate association with the assorted riff-raff who use firearms for such vulgar pursuits as defense of self and loved ones. (If you don’t believe me, try chatting up a British sport shooter and getting his views on the proper use of a firearm).

On the other hand, he wasn’t shy about making himself available to the press about his support for Obama LONG after everyone who cared to know knew Obama was the worst sort of gun grabber.