Smith & Wesson is suing the State of New Jersey after Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (D) issued a subpoena for several decades’ worth of the gunmaker’s advertising materials.
Smith & Wesson is requesting a New Jersey federal court’s intervention to stop the subpoena, which is allegedly seeking to determine the veracity of false advertising claims against the iconic firearms manufacturer.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
“The New Jersey Attorney General has taken a series of actions to suppress Smith & Wesson’s speech, and with the intention of damaging Smith & Wesson both financially and reputationally,” the complaint from the company said. “The most recent such action is the issuance of an administrative subpoena … on October 13, 2020 that allegedly seeks evidence of consumer fraud relating to advertising – but in reality, it seeks to suppress and punish lawful speech regarding gun ownership in order to advance an anti-Second Amendment agenda that the Attorney General publicly committed to pursue.”
Grewal’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said New Jersey’s subpoena is part of a concerted effort to hobble the gun industry through frivolous court proceedings. Such probes are meant to “get to discovery” in the hopes of forcing gun companies to agree to new regulations in legal settlements, according to Keane.
“They will … try to impose through settlements [gun-control] measures they can’t get passed through Congress or in the states,” he told the Washington Free Beacon. “It’s regulation through litigation.”
It’s easy to see that their side goal is to destroy the company financially with excess legal costs.
Stand on the 2nd Amendment.
Just reply that the company protects and defends ALL OF THE US CONSTITUTION.
NJ’s corruption as a blue state stands. Only the innercity fools support it.
And they are the ones most affected by criminal violence!
F***ing Commies! I hope S&W wins this suit for $Billions and puts that Governor out of business.
Should move to Texas or Oklahoma. Oklahoma has a surplus of workers. Always has. All you have to do is GET RID OF THE BIA and abolish all of those fake Indian nations.
you need to slow down on these Indian Tribes, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is a very prosperous nation, they don’t expect anything from the Government like so many others do, these people were forced from their homeland and moved to Eastern OK and they have Thrived.
DITTO!
Time for S&W to sue them for billions. Time to stop all this BS.
The only advertisement for guns I see is democrats and the media turning our country into a third world shithole. And when they talk about taking guns from law abiding citizens, I buy another and lots of ammo
Once the NJ subpoena is stopped, S&W should use the federal RICO statutes to sue NJ for billions, putting NJ’s very finances in peril. Someone must go for the jugular and get junkyard dog pettifoggers (lawyers) to bring the anti-Constitution anti-Second Amendment forces to heel.
It’s the only way to signal city and State governments that the SCOTUS Decisions of District of Columbia v. Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, and Caetano v Massachusetts have any meaning. The Framers of the Constitution made clear their intent what the Second Amendment meant and whom and what it covered. Just reading the Federalist Papers is sufficient to prove that. So let’s enforce it with a vengeance.
This crap is forcing the US closer and closer to a second civil war, a few months of Harris in the WH will clinch it, she is a stogie for Soros by his own internet interview and statement.
This is just more evidence that we are coming to a point where the government and the judiciary in particular are sooo corrupt that we have no option except II Chronicles 7:14 OR revolution.
Move South!!!! Leave the stupidity !!! Move to Florida like Trump…. where you can actually go to the beach … not just see one! Or look at SC !!! We would love to have Smith and Wesson ! There is always Texas. Another great option !!!!
It’s simple, the Governor is breaking the oath of office, he is deliberately causing possible harm to the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution. He took the oath of office to defend the constitution. Not destroy it . Throw the bum OUT !
Move to Kansas or Texas, NJ can go to……….!@#%&
S&W was bought out by a Soros Own company. This is all EYE WASH.
Yes, New Jersey spends time and taxpayer money to try to cripple the gun industry. Instead of prosecuting actual crime. Go figure.
Don’t worry Attorney General Gurbir Grewal (D) You are Now on our LONG list when SHTF, we’ll come knocking on your door too.
Anyone that can’t read and understand the following
“A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Should be banned for life for being a politician. The only reason the slimeballs want to take our guns and put law-abiding companies out of business is so they can take total control over the people of the United States. These people who continually press to get our guns, and other freedoms, do not like America and hate true Americans with every fiber of their being.
You know, “taxation without representation” is peanuts in comparison to this liberty crushing campaign by the Dems & Progressives. Yet there is no rebellion going on.
Gum makers and every other business and person the liberal fools attack should be sued. Fight fire with fire and get all of that Soros, Gates, democrat money they can from the law suites.
Jim B.
You have got to make it COST them personally. Find a way so that when you WIN, you can force the people who are responsible for the action to be forced to pay the legal expenses.
As Joe Biden says, COME ON MAN, because if these attorney generals want to keep prosecuting these frivolous cases then if they lose the case they should have to pay back the tax payers the money that it cost to bring the case to court. If they have to do that then I think a lot of these stupid cases would not even be brought up. As long as the tax payer has to foot the bill, these guys ( Democrats in particular) will keep on harassing the general public and private businesses. It has to stop! This is communism at its best.