Many of you will remember that I received a letter from the company known as "Smith & Wesson" (registered trademark), who I have no affiliation with, a while ago that caused me not to mention their name ever again (unless qualified with legal disclaimers). They required me to remove all items from this website that might POSSIBLY be claimed as copyright infringement- the letter even specifically mentioned promotional items that I actually own personally. So remove pics of my coffee mug that their own employee gave me? Got it. 

I am not posting anything directly on their latest sue threat against a number of companies including Brownells, but here are a couple of links:

https://www.facebook.com/ballisticradio/photos/pcb.738309049633261/738308282966671/?type=3&theater

https://www.instagram.com/p/_miiI5F8ZN/

When you buy, I urge to consider what type of company you are buying from - I will again this year be posting a picture only from outside their SHOT Show booth.

12/23/2015 ADDENDUM: The president of the company in question has released a statement that they did not intend on the 'cease and desist' to say that owners could not modify their own pistols without infringing on their intellectual property but they were merely trying to protect their copyrights and not confuse the consumers who might think that they endorsed said products/modifications (sound familiar?) It adds that they are "enthusiastic" about such products. As long as you don't use their name, name of the product, or pictures of your work.

Back peddling link: https://www.instagram.com/p/_o0tvBqguc/

ADDENDUM2: The president of the company has called the parties involved personally to apologize and has also publicly.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1170700316281096&id=662145557136577&hc_location=ufi

Link from their Facebook page to BearingArms article: http://bearingarms.com/smith-wesson-fully-understand-dream-gun-project-apologizes/

ADDENDUM3: Some have suggested that I remove this and "let it go" because it is "negative" towards the "industry." The company "Smith & Wesson" (registered trademark which I have no affiliation) is NOT the industry and are the only company actively pursuing its own support base.

THIS IS THE SAME COMPANY SUCCESSFULLY SUED BY GLOCK FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!  

I choose not to support them. There a lot of gun manufacturers that have not threatened to sue me. 

And the other big one (Ruger) has been removing their "internal locks" not requiring that you buy a much more expensive "Performance Center" (registered trademark) model not to have one.  

All trademarks are held by their respective holders - I am not affiliated with any of them.