{"id":2587,"date":"2013-02-02T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/02\/02\/smith-wesson-steps-up\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:52","slug":"smith-wesson-steps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2587","title":{"rendered":"Smith &#038; Wesson Steps Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13813,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.ruger.com\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ruger.com\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14202,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.smith-wesson.com\\\/webapp\\\/wcs\\\/stores\\\/servlet\\\/Category4_750001_750051_787655_-1_757992_757992_image&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20161001130329\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.smith-wesson.com:80\\\/webapp\\\/wcs\\\/stores\\\/servlet\\\/Category4_750001_750051_787655_-1_757992_757992_image&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 01:15:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 01:15:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nFirst it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruger.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ruge<\/a>r who provided an easy way to contact public officials about gun control. Now it is Smith &amp; Wesson. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smith-wesson.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/Category4_750001_750051_787655_-1_757992_757992_image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They now have a page<\/a> where you can send a pro-gun message to your elected officials in both DC and your state capitol.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see gun companies stepping up for gun rights and not making secret deals with administration officials. I don&#8217;t think we are going to see Smith &amp; Wesson make the same mistake that they made during the Clinton Administration.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t used either the Ruger or Smith &amp; Wesson pages to send a message, why not?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it was Ruger who provided an easy way to contact public officials about gun control. Now it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3341,45,680,391],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-elected-officials","tag-gun-control","tag-ruger","tag-smith-and-wesson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8810,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}