There's an idea that exists in the mind of most anti-gunners, and that's the fact that they're not really anti-gun. They're anti-you having a gun. They're fine with guns in the hands of the police, even if they also want to defund the police and banish them into historical obscurity. Yes, the cognitive dissonance would be painful if they recognized that the two ideas are contradictory.
As a result, though, they routinely exempt police from the laws they create for ordinary people.
It also seems that the good people at CMMG aren't amused by this.
At this time, CMMG would like to renew our statement on sales of products to states that restrict the freedom of it’s citizens. Simply put: CMMG will only fulfill state and local government agencies and officers to the same configurations as they restrict to their own citizens. We do not have 2 classes of citizens in the country; we are ALL subject to the constitution. CMMG will fulfill orders in restricted areas if the Chief of Police or Sheriff of that respective department makes a public and written statement refusing to enforce those unconstitutional restrictions on the citizens in that jurisdiction. This includes firearms, parts, magazines and suppressors. If a state cannot trust us with equipment, we cannot and will not trust them.
I believe the technical term for this is "based AF."
Look, I get that law enforcement officers have a hard job to do, and most of them want nothing at all to do with the regulations we're seeing go into effect today in places like Virginia and Rhode Island. They just want to do their job well, go home to their families, and might actively oppose the regulations in question.
I understand that this will suck for them.
The problem is that so long as police departments can buy weapons that the average citizen is denied, there's going to be a disparity where some animals are more equal than others.
In the grand scheme of things, I don't know how much of a difference this will make, but I also think that CMMG has laid down a gauntlet that every other firearm manufacturer should lay down as well. While police chiefs and urban sheriffs lobby and advocate for gun control, maybe they should have to face ramifications for their actions, including difficulty securing firearms for their officers. No one should sell to anti-gun departments, and no one should allow anti-gun states to treat the Second Amendment as a second-class right, where certain weapons are fine for the state and local governments, but not for the average American.
Hell, if enough departments in this country run into this problem, states will have to act. They'll have to do something, and since they can't force businesses to sell them something they don't want to sell, the only option is to end the restrictions.
So to all you other manufacturers out there, I ask you to follow suit. Make this the norm. Make this how the gun business works, and watch the change that happens.
Especially since I can promise you that the private citizens throughout the country will look at what you do favorably and keep that in mind when it's time for them to buy a new firearm.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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