{"id":4470,"date":"2011-05-02T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/05\/02\/buyer-power-revisted\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:14:23","slug":"buyer-power-revisted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4470","title":{"rendered":"Buyer Power Revisted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17674,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/04\\\/buyer-power-as-means-of-gun-control.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5752,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The National Shooting Sports Foundation responded on this past Friday to a report put out by CSGV&#8217;s sister organization The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. The report urged municipalities to use their &#8220;buyer power&#8221; to force firearms manufacturers to adopt a set of rules that the gun control industry wants. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/buyer-power-as-means-of-gun-control.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As I noted when it was released<\/a>, gun controllers grossly overestimate the economic influence of municipalities when it comes to firearms purchases. Larry Keane of NSSF also points out below&nbsp;that the gun controllers forgot about the legality of their little scheme. In other words, it is illegal. Moreover, NSSF will sue if they try to go ahead and implement their little gun control scheme.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>For Anti-Gun Groups It\u2019s D\u00e9j\u00e0 Vu All Over Again <\/p>\n<p>April 29, 2011 By Larry Keane <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cEducational Fund to Stop Gun Violence\u201d (Ed Fund) released a \u201creport\u201d entitled \u201cBuying Power\u201d that claims to detail \u201can exciting new strategy to reform the gun industry.\u201d Unfortunately for members of the gun-ban lobby, this strategy is neither new nor legal.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what the Ed Fund says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA city purchasing firearms for its law enforcement department can use its buyer power to create incentives for gun manufacturers to employ \u201ccountermarketing\u201d strategies to ensure that their retailers are using all available procedures to prevent illegal firearms trafficking. Such strategies might include videotaping firearms sales, preventing the use of cell phones inside gun stores, and requiring criminal background checks for all employees who handle firearms. Gun manufacturers would be obliged to listen and change their policies to compete for cities\u2019 business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what the Ed Fund should know:<\/p>\n<p>In March of 2000, then-Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo and then-New York Attorney General Spitzer conspired with various mayors and local government officials to use their market purchasing power to boycott firearms manufacturers unless the manufacturers first agreed to sign an arbitrary and politically motivated list of firearms regulations entitled the \u201cCode of Conduct.\u201d Spitzer said, \u201cWe want every appropriate government entity to agree to purchase firearms only from companies that have signed a comprehensive code of conduct.\u201d Spitzer said the objective of the coalition was to \u201c\u2026boycott gun manufacturers who fail to adhere to a new safety code.\u201d Although Spitzer\u2019s recruitment efforts weren\u2019t always successful, officials of numerous cities and local governments agreed to join the boycott.<\/p>\n<p><b>In response to this blatantly illegal restraint of trade, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), along with several members of the firearms industry sued Andrew Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer and the local government officials who agreed to the boycott. The filing of the lawsuit stopped this illegal boycott dead in its tracks, as all defendants \u2013 Cuomo, Spitzer, and the mayors \u2013 quickly disavowed the boycott (NSSF, et al v. Cuomo, et al). And much like 11 years ago, NSSF stands ready to once again take legal action against any attempt to implement an illegal boycott.<\/b> No doubt such an attempt to manipulate the free market will be frowned upon by law enforcement when they learn that gun control groups now want to dictate which firearms they carry to protect themselves and our communities and base those selections on political considerations, as opposed to which firearms are most reliable and have the features desired by law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The entire Educational Fund \u201creport\u201d is nothing but a rehash of the decade old factually baseless allegations made by the Brady Center and greedy trial lawyers in their failed attempts to destroy and bankrupt the firearms industry through junk lawsuits which began in the mid to late 1990s. Fortunately, these junk lawsuits failed, but not before members of the industry were forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to successfully defend the cases. In fact, the Educational Fund\u2019s \u201creport\u201d is based largely on an article published by Professor Gregory T. Gundlach (ironically pronounced \u201cgunlock\u201d), who was a paid expert witness for the NAACP in its failed lawsuit against the firearms industry that went to trial before Brooklyn, NY federal court judge Jack B. Weinstein in 2003. The \u201cadvisory jury\u201d judge Weinstein empanelled to hear the case rejected Professor Gunlach\u2019s \u201cexpert\u201d opinions and rendered a verdict in favor of the industry members. The \u201creport\u201d also relies upon an article by law school Professor David Kairys, the father of the roundly discredited \u201cpublic nuisance\u201d theory of liability underlying the failed municipal lawsuits. All that is old is new again it seems.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nH\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/daysofourtrailers.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thirdpower<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Shooting Sports Foundation responded on this past Friday to a report put out by CSGV&#8217;s sister organization&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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2138,3981,232],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-csgv","tag-educational-fund-to-stop-gun-violence","tag-nssf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","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=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6613,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions\/6613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}