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A look inside Brownells, Iowa
distributor of firearms accessories
Des Moines Register, by Donnelle Eller
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Posted By:leesum, 2/3/2013 1:20:38 PM
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| Brownells is an economic developer’s dream: a fast-growing, homegrown Iowa business that treats workers like the neighbors they are, eagerly donates to a passing community hat, and grooms leaders who sit on city boards and holler from soccer game benches. The Montezuma-based supplier of firearm accessories, ammunition and supplies also stands on the front lines of a national debate over gun control — selling controversial high-capacity ammunition magazines and parts for semi-automatics like the AR-15.
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Comments:
This article did touch on some of the opposition the Brownells face. Read the questions the reporter asked in writing and the written reply by Pete Brownell.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
harper, 2/3/2013 1:45:39 PM (No. 9155958)
Brownells: great selection, great service, great prices, great product knowledge. A classic American business.
No wonder the leftards hate it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
John Moses Browning, 2/3/2013 1:58:53 PM (No. 9155976)
Brownells is a great company. I have done business with them for years with nary a complaint. As it is with most gun related businesses.
Gun people as a rule are good people despite all the propaganda from the democrats/communists.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
flatwater, 2/3/2013 2:08:34 PM (No. 9155994)
Will the Des Moines Register issue yet ANOTHER editorial calling for pro-Second Amendment advocates to be murdered in the street?
Yes, no extremists at the Des Moines Register, right?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
3rdGenNRALifer, 2/3/2013 2:38:00 PM (No. 9156041)
I resolve to buy more stuff that I don´t really need from Brownells.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 2/3/2013 2:42:45 PM (No. 9156048)
I wish I had bought that gun shop 10 years ago. I could retire now.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
clw54, 2/3/2013 3:35:02 PM (No. 9156106)
Controversial? AR-15 magazines are only controversial because the left doesn´t like them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
3rdGenNRALifer, 2/3/2013 4:05:30 PM (No. 9156154)
Take number six´s comment and substitute just about anything for AR-15 magazines" and it would still be so true.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bighambone, 2/3/2013 4:30:17 PM (No. 9156185)
People should remember that the liberals affectively want to put conservative oriented firearms manufacturers, related industries, and businesses out of business when they propose to ban just about all modern firearms produced and sold in the USA today. Those manufacturers, industries and businesses could not survive if they were limited to bidding on a diminishing number of military contracts, the liberals know that. If those manufacturers, industries, and businesses were to go down, tens of thousands, maybe a lot more, well paying American jobs would also be gone, along with all the technical knowhow connected to them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Doc Obiwan, 2/3/2013 4:49:28 PM (No. 9156220)
Last year I went to the Gunsmiths´ Job Fair, sponsored by Brownell´s and held in Des Moines. I´m going again this year.
If you wanted, you could sign up for a tour of the plant in Montezuma, the day before, which I did. It is a well-run place, lots of friendly folks working the lines, clean, neat and well-lit.
As I know something of business other than gunsmithing, I asked some other questions on the tour. Like, where do they draw the work-force from? Montezuma is not that large a town. They draw heavily, they told me, from Montezuma, and from the outlying areas, up to about 30 or 40 miles out. Beyond that range, they said, it´s not a winning proposition for a worker to commute, with the price of gas what it is.
I have a number of places I deal with for parts and equipment, but Brownell´s is always the first place I look.
Good company.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MTGardenerview, 2/3/2013 5:24:35 PM (No. 9156265)
Watch the below video there were no AR15 or other long guns used by the shooter at Newtown
shooting
http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/50208495#50208495
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
dvc, 2/3/2013 11:34:33 PM (No. 9156695)
Current reports indicate that the shooter at Newtown used the Bushmaster AR-15 variant for all shooting except to kill himself. A shotgun was left in the car. Early reports said otherwise, and apparently have been corrected.
I wish there was some totally authoritative source, but all that I have been able to find say it was the AR, even though old reports are still circulating the web that the AR was not used. I have no axe to grind except to make sure we are using the facts, not outdated and wrong info.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/4/2013 5:52:21 AM (No. 9156845)
The big question is: Did Brownells participate in the Homeland Security IFB to buy up all the ammunition in the US?
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