The Firearm Blog: Ruger 30 round Mini-14 magazines

[Netpackrat]

that was the same month as the LCP was released and since then they have released the LCR and the new 30 round mags... plus the SR-9 was released in what nov 07? perhaps his leaving had something to do with his not liking the way the company was heading...

He's still there, he just isn't on the board of directors anymore. If I had to guess, he's probably thinking about retirement and reducing his workload accordingly.

[mekender]

that was the same month as the LCP was released and since then they have released the LCR and the new 30 round mags... plus the SR-9 was released in what nov 07? perhaps his leaving had something to do with his not liking the way the company was heading...

He's still there, he just isn't on the board of directors anymore. If I had to guess, he's probably thinking about retirement and reducing his workload accordingly.

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site ... ewsLang=en

SOUTHPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR), announces that its Board of Directors accepted with regret the resignation of Stephen L. Sanetti as a Director, President and General Counsel. As previously announced on March 26, 2008, Mr. Sanetti is leaving the Company to become the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (“NSSF”) on May 1, 2008.

“Steve’s life-long experience in the firearms industry, his familiarity of its members and knowledge of its products make him uniquely qualified to lead this industry as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the NSSF,” said Ruger CEO Michael Fifer. “While we will miss Steve’s passion for firearms and his camaraderie at Ruger, we will share in the industry’s good fortune of having Steve at the helm of the NSSF,” Fifer concluded.

[Netpackrat]

I was just going off the first site that you linked, and remembering Sanetti being on the "Gun Talk" radio program representing Ruger a lot more recently than April of last year. It doesn't change anything, since nobody in charge of Ruger has ever contradicted the company policy of supporting bans of ugly rifles started by Mr. Ruger.

[mekender]

I was just going off the first site that you linked, and remembering Sanetti being on the "Gun Talk" radio program representing Ruger a lot more recently than April of last year. It doesn't change anything, since nobody in charge of Ruger has ever contradicted the company policy of supporting bans of ugly rifles started by Mr. Ruger.

where on the company website do you see it?

hell, by releasing 30 round mags arent they supporting it now?

sorry but i dont see the point of holding a grudge against a dead man and his extinct policies.

[Netpackrat]

I did say at the time they started selling the mags, that it was a step in the right direction. Well, I was going to say that it would take one of two things to get me to suspend my hostility to Ruger, the company, but a quick double check of their website shows that one of those has occurred, so I am officially standing down my Ruger (the company) bashing absent any further acts of hostility towards the right to bear arms. I still reserve the right to rain on the parade of anyone who posts fond memories of Ruger, the man. And I am still annoyed at the whitewashing job NRA did on him after he threw a buttload of money at them, but I'm certainly not alone here in my frequent disgust for things done by the NRA.

Anyway, if you are curious what the two things I wanted to see from Ruger were, take note of the fact that they are now offering a Mini with a pistol grip stock from the factory. They've joined the ranks of EBR manufacturers, and tacitly admitted that ordinary citizens are entitled to own ugly guns. Furthermore, if they repeat their previous mistake, they'd now be cutting their own throats. I would have liked it if they had issued a statement to the effect that "we were wrong", but I never really expected that to happen. Perhaps the best justice is that the company Bill Ruger built is now selling things to the general public that he "never meant" for them to have.

[mekender]

I did say at the time they started selling the mags, that it was a step in the right direction. Well, I was going to say that it would take one of two things to get me to suspend my hostility to Ruger, the company, but a quick double check of their website shows that one of those has occurred, so I am officially standing down my Ruger (the company) bashing absent any further acts of hostility towards the right to bear arms. I still reserve the right to rain on the parade of anyone who posts fond memories of Ruger, the man. And I am still annoyed at the whitewashing job NRA did on him after he threw a buttload of money at them, but I'm certainly not alone here in my frequent disgust for things done by the NRA.

Anyway, if you are curious what the two things I wanted to see from Ruger were, take note of the fact that they are now offering a Mini with a pistol grip stock from the factory. They've joined the ranks of EBR manufacturers, and tacitly admitted that ordinary citizens are entitled to own ugly guns. Furthermore, if they repeat their previous mistake, they'd now be cutting their own throats. I would have liked it if they had issued a statement to the effect that "we were wrong", but I never really expected that to happen. Perhaps the best justice is that the company Bill Ruger built is now selling things to the general public that he "never meant" for them to have.

the free market is a bitch sometimes isnt it?

and one thing you cant ever say about ruger is that they make shitty products... or that they dont stand by them...

[D5CAV]

and one thing you cant ever say about ruger is that they make shitty products... or that they dont stand by them...

True, but I can say that my experience with Ruger products is they are an accounting-department-review away from being great products, or in some cases, even good products.

Show me a Ruger product, and I'll show you where they saved a nickel here and a nickel there. The end result being a product that may have been priced 20% below the competition, but the competition still gets 80% market share (Mini-14 vs. AR-15 as an example). They are masters at delivering fair products (not good, not great, but fair) at a fair price.

[Netpackrat]

and one thing you cant ever say about ruger is that they make shitty products... or that they dont stand by them...

Shitty, like Mini-14 barrels bored off-center, or the incorrect bore diameter of early model Mini 30's?

[Kommander]

Honestly I really don't see the point of the Mini-whatever series of rifles. Why not just get an AR or an AK for a few bucks more? I understand it if someone lives in a state with craptastic gun laws, but other than that I really don't get it.

[Netpackrat]

I'd actually rather have a Mini than an AR, but I'd much rather have an AK than either of those. I don't really have a lot of use for .223 in general, however.