Ruger comments?

[MT1]

Can someone please point me to the negative comments make by the owner of Ruger? whomever it was about civilians and magazine capacity, semi-auto weapons... thanks.

[sd1023x]

think the dude passed away, and Ruger is run by someone else, someone progressive, hence their foray into the AR market. Thats what I've heard anyways.

[Philthy]

I can't seem to find an actual source for the letter, the best I could find was Wikipedia and all the other sources parroted, word for word, what Wiki says:

In a letter to members of the House and Senate on 30 March 1989, Ruger stated in what has come to be known as "The Ruger Letter":

"The best way to address the firepower concern is therefore not to try to outlaw or license many millions of older and perfectly legitimate firearms (which would be a licensing effort of staggering proportions) but to prohibit the possession of high capacity magazines. By a simple, complete, and unequivocal ban on large capacity magazines, all the difficulty of defining "assault rifles" and "semi-automatic rifles" is eliminated. The large capacity magazine itself, separate or attached to the firearm, becomes the prohibited item. A single amendment to Federal firearms laws could prohibit their possession or sale and would effectively implement these objectives."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Ruger

[elSquid]

http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/papabill.html

-- Michael

[Dr Rockso]

I was too young to know or care about any of this at the time, but after talking to some old-timers I'm willing to cut Bill a little bit of slack. In the late-80s, early-90s gun-owners were politically weaker and less organized than they are now, and a complete semiauto ban was a real possibility. Yeah, he threw magazines under the bus, but he may have saved us from something much worse. Obviously he was acting out of self-interest, but I can't really fault him for that either.