Cheaper than Dirt – LonelyMachines

Ordnance

Cheaper Than Dirt, Again

Right after the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, online retailer Cheaper than Dirt announced they would no longer be selling firearms. What they actually did was hold back their inventory, wait until other retailers sold out in the panic, then release the inventory at inflated prices. In case you don’t remember, I took a screenshot of their site at the time.

It was a cheap and dishonest way to take advantage of a stressful situation, and because the gun culture forgave and forgot, they’re at it again. This time, they’ve at least dropped the outright deception. I suppose that’s something, but they’re still gouging on their prices.

That’s about three times what retail pricing should be on that ammunition.

They are not our friends. They do not deserve your business.

Civil Rights

Dissonance

Magpul has put their money behind their words in a big way.

Due to the highly restrictive language in HB 1224, if passed, and we remained here, this measure would require us to cease PMAG production on July 1, 2013.

In short, Magpul would be unable to remain in business as a CO company, and the over 200 jobs for direct employees and nearly 700 jobs at our subcontractors and suppliers would pick up and leave CO. Due to the structure of our operations, this would be entirely possible, hopefully without significant disruption to production.

The legislators drafting these measures do so in spite of the fact that nothing they are proposing will do anything to even marginally improve public safety in CO, and in fact, will leave law-abiding CO residents less able to defend themselves, strip away rights and property from residents who have done nothing wrong, and send nearly 1000 jobs and millions in tax revenue out of the state.

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Ordnance

That’s Unexpected

Cheaper Than Dirt

I was ordering parts from Cheaper than Dirt last night, and I noticed they’re not selling guns at all anymore. I’m not sure when this happened or why. Maybe they failed an audit or something.

Oddly enough, their cached page on Google still shows them, so this must be recent.

Cheaper Than Dirt

For those inclined towards conspiracy, Cerberus is selling off Freedom Group, the conglomerate that owns Remington, Marlin, DPMS, and Bushmaster. While the timing suggests politics, the Freedom Group is over $600 million in debt, and I’d been hearing rumors of this since Thanksgiving.