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1. I’ve taken notice of these XD’s as well. Good review, Pat.

2. I have heard these were “tack drivers”. Nutnfancy said they were tops in accuracy among SubComs.

3. Too bad Springfield Armory and Rock River sold out Illinois gun owners. I like both of their products but I won’t be buying any.

   1. What happened?

   2. Glad to learn of this. Thanks.

4. @ BOB, After researching your comment, I felt pretty disgusted as well. I guess I won’t be purchasing that Saint that I’ve had my eye on lately. Sad. Thanks for the tip.

5. Don’t believe everything you read.

   Springfield Armory has always been and will always be unwavering supporters of the 2A, and our long track record supports this with millions of dollars spent combating anti-gunners across the board. Unfortunately, what was a very small issue was stoked into a large one by a media organization that by all facts had questionable motives at best. Much of the information that has been passed around the internet is patently false, and beyond issuing our initial statement we have tried to stay out of the online discussions.

   As we stated originally, we formed a lobbying group to further defend gun owner rights in Illinois, and hired a lobbyist to oversee those actions. Believing our interests would be served according to our company values, we, in hindsight, allowed this person to operate without enough oversight. Decisions were made by this lobbyist unbeknownst to us until after the fact. Once this was discovered and an investigation was done, we terminated the lobbyist and issued a statement of apology for our lack of knowledge. We then went on to fund and support the ultimate defeat of SB 1657, aka “the gun dealer licensing act”, and are officially on record as one of the organizations opposed to the bill.
   Springfield Armory did not, has not, and will not, after decades of proven support for the 2A and our Constitutional rights, all of a sudden turn our backs in any way on the values that we stand for. We were the first firearms manufacturer to stop doing business with Dick’s Sporting Goods due to their continued attempts to deny Second Amendment freedoms to our fellow Americans, costing us millions of dollars in sales.

   In a time where “guilty until proven innocent”, and flimsy “evidence” is becoming the norm, where a lifetime of good work can be erased in an instant, we would urge anyone to look at the entire historical body of 2A defense from Springfield Armory before making judgement.

   The Anti-2A love to divide and conquer us as we eat our own, and we have battles on the horizon with the real enemy. Not much more we can say about this. These are the facts, and we did our best to fix the situation when we learned about it.

   1. “we did our best to fix the situation when we learned about it.”

      thanks.

      the “gun community” tends to be a little quick to judge.

   2. “Steve”,who are you? A lobbyists? A corporate officer? company executive? As a Second Amendment supporter where have you been since Illinois has been the most anti gun state for the last 40 years(since Laurie Dan) and the most corrupt for a lot longer. Which brings into question of hiring a “lobbyist” in Illinois is almost the same as announcing you are paying bribes as that is how things get done in Springfield and the heart of the Madigan/Chicago way(see the videos of him passing envelopes during votes on the floor).

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