Benchmade Knives

[Thunderer]

If you look at Benchmade's political contributions; they are to senators and representatives who heavily support public lands and public access to that land.

This is where I get a degree of dissonance in my politics. I am 100% pro-gun and 100% pro public lands/hunting. Unfortunately, its hard to find politicians, red or blue, who support both sides. It appears Benchmade is going with public land/access over gun rights, and that doesn't necessarily mean they're anti-gun.

 

[*zap*]

How do you know why they donated to each politician?

 

[rodney482]

They can pound sand!

 

[Thunderer]

How do you know why they donated to each politician?

I don't, just a theory.

Aaaaand Benchmade just put this gem out there to make things worse for themselves. Two minutes of pathetic rambling with zero explanation about the one thing that pissed people off the most - political contributions. They should have just hired a professional PR firm.

Update - Look like Les has a history of supporting anti-gun Dems going back to 2002. https://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/les-de-asis.asp?cycle=06

 

[AlaskaEd]

That was posted several days ago. Benchmade already said the contributions were to grease the wheels to get rid of obsolete federal interstate knife transport laws. Looks like most of the donations were for the democratic cosponsors of the new bill.

And as far as this helping Benchmade’s business, they can already ship interstate to knife dealers, so they don’t really gain much. The average person or online knife dealer can’t ship or transport autos or a couple other types freely across state lines though, however. So on the outside, this new law (or getting rid of the old one) helps the average knife owner more than anything.