Friday, March 02, 2018

Anti-Gun Movement Is Infecting an Outdoor Brand’s Other Products

The national debate over gun control is now sweeping up bike helmets and water bottles. REI and Mountain Equipment Co-op, two outdoor retail chains that are also customer cooperatives, said Thursday they were suspending orders for popular items like Bell bicycle helmets and CamelBak water bottles from the company that owns the brands, Vista Outdoor, because Vista also makes assault-style rifles. The move marks an escalation of the stances businesses have taken in the past week in the controversial gun debate since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month that killed 17 students and staff members...more

The giants of the outdoor industry are using their economic might to affect political change, all to the left:

Anti-multiple use and pro monument,
Anti second amendment and pro gun control.

Less acces to federal lands and restricting types of weapons available. 
I wonder which freedoms they'll try to restrict next.

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