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Keith B wrote:

bdickens wrote:Funny how when someone shoots his or her mouth off and angers a whole lot of people who then take action that has negative consequences for the mouth-shooter, that person's supporters start whining about the First Amendment and use words like "chilling" to describe those actions.

Mr. Cooper certainly has the right to be a useful idiot if he so chooses and throw his support behind the causes of socialism and victim disarmament. I have the right if I so choose to not help support those causes by patronizing his competitors instead. I also have the right to write a letter telling the man why he won't be getting any of my money.

Mr. Cooper didn't loose his job for supporting a particular political candidate. Mr. Cooper lost his job for angering his company's customer base so much as to seriously damage their business. If I insulted all of my bosses customers and damaged his business, I would probably lose my job too.

And quite frankly, I don't believe the company's statement about asking Mr. Cooper to step down. The company already lied once before in their earlier statement about him giving more money to McCain. They are probably lying again.

I agree for the most part, but the company may have been mislead about his campaign givings as much as anyone else. When you have a person as your figurehead of the company, you tend to believe their side of the story until you have proof otherwise. Whether they had true reason to investigate earlier is at question. However, damage control is all they can do at this point. This isn't the first CEO/President of a company that has lied, cheated and covered up things without the company being one of the last to realize it (Enron, World Com, etc.) and it certainly won't be the last.

However the end result would have been MUCH MUCH different if the people knew what was going on with those corrupt officials wouldn't it..I bet if they had 2 days warning the outcome for many would have been VERY different

Borrowed from the same site as my reply email

rus wrote:A search of OpenSecrets donor records for "Cooper" in Montana uncovered this:

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COOPER, DAN
STEVENSVILLE,MT 59870	COOPER ARMS/PRESIDENT / CEO	4/15/08	$200	Obama, Barack (D)
COOPER, DAN
STEVENSVILLE,MT 59870	COOPER ARMS/PRESIDENT / CEO	4/15/08	$200	Obama, Barack (D)
COOPER, DAN
STEVENSVILLE,MT 59870	COOPER ARMS/PRESIDENT / CEO	4/15/08	$-200	Obama, Barack (D)

Now, this could be money spent to fight against Hill-Dog... given the date I suppose it's possible. However, there seems to be no record on OpenSecrets about him donating any money to McCain.

And from the guy who took the .45ACP to the elbow

LittleLebowski wrote:The below disproves the statement on Cooper's website about supporting Obama over Hill-Dog.

"That's on top of the $1,000 check he wrote to Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2004, after he was dazzled by Obama's speech at that year's Democratic National Convention."

These guys researched it well...if he doesn't come up with a formal lawsuit against the newspaper for libel..then he is lying, total backpedal,

Borrowed from another site (the guy is an artist with words)

Dear Cooper Arms,
While I fully respect the right of your chief executive officer to express his opinion regarding any political candidate, I feel that he has made the wrong decision. In supporting -- not just by voting, but with money undoubtedly earned from the sale of firearms to Americans who care about their right to own them -- Barack Hussein Obama, Mr. Cooper has shown one of two things: his blatant inability to look at facts which pertain to the continued right of Americans to possess firearms, or his intention to support a political candidate by all possible legal means who wishes to restrict and eventually deny said right.

As a relatively new gun-owner, I can tell you that even in my short time as a member of the firearms community, I had heard good things about Cooper weapons. I assure you that the quality of your product has less meaning to me than the content of your character, and your attitude regarding my rights. Consider this a notice that I will never, in my many planned years ahead of continued gun ownership, purchase a firearm from your company.

In case you've not yet noticed, American firearms owners do know their rights, they care about their rights, and they will fight for them, even if it means resorting to an inferior product when it comes to their firearms activity of choice.

Sincerely,


info@cooperfirearms.com