Boycott Reminder List

This is to remind me why I'm up on my high horse.  I am sure there's more to add, and this post will occasionally float back up to the top when I do.

Cheaper Than Yellow-Cake Dirt.  For really gouging hard during every panic.  Raising your prices to meet demand is one thing.  Canceling pending orders at the old price so you can sell existing stock at the new price is shitty and dishonest.

Dick's Sporting Goods.  For taking people's money on pre-ordered Troy Defense 5.56 Carbines then canceling those orders.  They did refund the money, but since it was in the wake of Sandy Hook, the money refunded couldn't touch even a crappy AR for months.

HS Precision. For hiring Lon Horiuchi, the actual shooter at Ruby Ridge.

Smith Enterprises.  No, Mr Smith, you cannot "take back" Nazi iconography.  It's too tainted.  You especially cannot "take it back" while there's still Holocaust survivors surviving!

Troy Industries.  For being so tone deaf as to hire Jody Weis (a gun banning politician), even briefly, then not noticing the customers paying attention to such details and hiring Dale Monroe, Lon Horiuchi's shootin' buddy from Ruby Ridge.  Their non-apology response to the outrage cemented the deal.  I can wait until Steve Troy is dead to see what the successor company looks like.  They're so bad at filtering their hires, you kinda want to forgive Dick's.

Remington Outdoor Company.  I won't call it a boycott of them, but I'm very leery of buying from them.  Lots and lots of reports of quality control plummeting since they closed up the original New England locations of the companies they've absorbed.  Plus they've had a couple of disastrous new releases.  Buy with caution.

Bushmaster.  I would be continuing by boycott of Bushmaster for lying to me about product availability, but that company no longer exists, having been bought by the many tentacled monster Cerebus and rolled into Freedom Group Remington Outdoor Company.  I am uncertain if the company formed from the ashes of Remington relocating Bushmaster, Windham Weaponry, is the same idiots in the front office as before.

DPMS. Whom was being boycotted for essentially saying that anyone who wasn't a cop who wanted to buy a shorter than 16" AR barrel was doing so for nefarious purposes.  They too have been absorbed into the Remington Outdoor Collective.

I used to boycott Colt, Ruger and Smith and Wesson.

Colt for rolling on their backs and showing their bellies to the gun banners and de-featuring their AR's long before there was much political need and no legal need.  Their pursuit of smart-gun bullshit is in here too.  Both policies have been dropped.

Ruger because Bill Ruger and his fuddy policies and several gaffs.  He dead.  His company isn't fuddy any more.

S&W because of their deal with the Clintons.  They repudiated that deal when the general boycott of them allowed them to be bought out by sane people.