SFGate reports Thanks Kriss for the e-mail tip.
In recent years, many top-selling brands - including the 195-year-old Remington Arms, as well as Bushmaster Firearms and DPMS, leading makers of military-style semiautomatics - have quietly passed into the hands of a single private company. It is called the Freedom Group - and it is the most powerful and mysterious force in the U.S. commercial gun industry today.One of the theories was that George Soros was behind it all in order to crush the hated gun business in America. So widespread was that rumor that the NRA made an official response to it.
Never heard of it?
You're not alone. Even within gun circles, the Freedom Group is something of an enigma. Its rise has been so swift that it has become the subject of wild speculation and grassy-knoll conspiracy theories. In the realm of consumer rifles and shotguns - long guns, in the trade - it is unrivaled in its size and reach. By its own count, the Freedom Group sold 1.2 million long guns and 2.6 billion rounds of ammunition in the 12 months ended March 2010, the most recent year for which figures are publicly available.
I have another theory. The conspiracy goes much deeper than the George Soroses of the world and their enemies in the NRA. Super-intelligent aliens are doing this and the government knows it. The Soros/NRA thing is a smokescreen to prevent panic.
What's your theory? Is it just big business doint what big business does? Or is there something behind the scenes?
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