They have them for cars, so why not? Peter Hamm and Josh Sugarmann aren”t happy about it though:
“He’s arming the criminals and then telling the rest of us to buy guns so we can protect ourselves from the criminals he’s armed,” said Peter Hamm, communications director for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
While gun control advocates acknowledge that Thompson has a right to make this offer, they say this is yet another example of the gun industry trying to profit from gun violence.
“What this shows is that to the gun industry, gun violence is at best an abstract concept and at worst a business opportunity,” said Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center.
“No matter how these products are used against citizens, the answer is always more guns when in fact these problems stem from the fact that there are too many guns out there already,” Sugarmann told ABCNews.com.
When the standard playbook no longer works, keep repeating it, only louder! If Mr. Thompson is selling guns to criminals, shouldn’t Josh and Peter be complaining to the ATF instead of a newspaper? Or are they merely hoping the public doesn’t realize that Eric Thompson can’t ship any firearms directly to the public, but must ship through a licensed dealer who will run the federally mandated criminal background check?
Also, college students are adults. They can vote, get married, get drafted, sign contracts, and what have you. You have to be 21 to get a license to carry one in all but one state (Indiana, I think). So what’s the problem?  A lot of these guys were toting automatic weapons around Iraq before they became students. If you’re old enough to bear arms for your country, and possibly die for your country, you’re old enough to buy a gun.
