I hope I put this where it belongs. If not, I apologize and please Admins move it.

Court approves Everytown’s bid to buy inventory of Jimenez firearms


As we reported early in the year, Everytown was trying to buy the remaining inventory of Jimenez firearms after they declared bankruptcy (thanks in part to Everytown, btw). Looks like Everytown is getting the guns:
The Crawfords filed a wrongful death lawsuit in June 2019 against the alleged trafficking ring, which included Samuels as well as the manufacturer of the murder weapon, Jimenez Arms, and the dealer who sold it to Samuels, Green Tip Arms.
The grieving parents were represented by the litigation arm of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund.
A separate settlement involved Jimenez Arms, which agreed to stop selling firearms and declared bankruptcy in which the court approved Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund’s bid to purchase Jimenez Arms’ remaining gun inventory to prevent it from being transferred to JA Industries, its successor firearms business.
NPRreported that it was a 14-year-old homeless boy who shot Crawford

Anyone else looking forward to Everytown roll-marked Saturday night specials?

Jimenez should have been bankrupt long ago without the gun grabbers' help.

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Originally posted by T.Webb:
Anyone else looking forward to Everytown roll-marked Saturday night specials?

I'm sure they'll end up being melted down and turning into a modern art sculpture in downtown Berkley or somesuch.

Still, I won't be shedding any tears over the destruction of a bunch of worthless Jimenez POSs.

Jiminez wasn't Sig, but it fulfilled a need. The dishwasher who walks home after midnight needs a gun, too. To borrow a cliche, this will disproportionately impact women and minorities.

Maybe they could be melted down and forged into a few actually reliable and useful firearms

When I read the title of this thread, I couldn't stop laughing. Who else would be dumb enough to exchange good money for that stuff?

Reminds me of a SC etv documentary where the state and an ecological group declared victory when they bought out Roger Millican who was going to build a gated community on a barrier Island near the coast.... they saved the island from development... and Millican got something like 50 million dollars for a mosquitoe infested swamp....

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Originally posted by Fredward:
Jiminez wasn't Sig, but it fulfilled a need. The dishwasher who walks home after midnight needs a gun, too.

So it can jam while he's getting mugged? Then he's out not only his wallet, but also the $100 he spent on that piece of shit gun, plus the inevitable beatdown or murder from the mugger that the dishwasher pulled an unreliable gun on.

We had a case several years back where Jiminez's shittiness actually saved a guy's life. Scrotebag armed with a Jiminez (IIRC, but might have been one of the basically identical Raven/Lorcin/etcs.) tried to rob an auto parts store. Scrote actually pulled the trigger on his gun while pointing it at the clerk's head, but the gun failed to fire, jammed, and the magazine dropped out. Scrote then booked it, and the clerk lived.

There's another famous video online of a guy trying to rob a store (a sandwich shop, IIRC), and the same thing happens. He pulls the trigger on the guy behind the register, nothing happens, he tried to clear the jam, pulls the trigger again, tries to clear it again, and then leaves.

So in that regard, thank God for cheap guns.

Advice to dishwasher, get a S&W BG .380 or Airweight.

So from a 20,000 ft. view, the headline could read....

"Everytown uses donors' money to buy low-quality guns in bulk quantity."

I'm sure they have some counter-intuitive reason or plan, hoping it advances their agenda. But it sure seems odd, hearing this out of the blue.

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Originally posted by joel9507:
I'm sure they have some counter-intuitive reason or plan, hoping it advances their agenda.

They forced Jiminez out of business, and then bought up their remaining handgun inventory, so it can be destroyed rather than sold off to some other gun company to be resold on the market.

Now Everytown can practice malfunction drills.

So Everytown essentially accomplished what gun buy-backs do, only all in one go?

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by T.Webb:
Anyone else looking forward to Everytown roll-marked Saturday night specials?

I'm sure they'll end up being melted down and turning into a modern art sculpture in downtown Berkley or somesuch.

Still, I won't be shedding any tears over the destruction of a bunch of worthless Jimenez POSs.

While I wouldn’t use a jimenez as a fishing weight let alone a gun, I wouldn’t be too quick to be supportive or even dismissive of a gun control group suing with enough fervor and financial backing to destroy a company and its products, shitty as they may be.

It won’t be long for them to use it against larger manufacturers, and all it takes is a billionaire or twos pocket change and things become very grim. That and vulture capitalist types are two very real and effective threats to the firearm industry and rights.

They were garbage guns but a win for them is bad for us.

That's going to be a lot of 4473's

The irony might be who ultimately gets the money they are spending on the inventory?

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Originally posted by Blume9mm:
The irony might be who ultimately gets the money they are spending on the inventory?

Well, Everytown could likely recoup some of the money. That would go something like this:

-Everytown pays Jiminez $X for the remaining guns.
-Jiminez, as part of the settlement, may have been ordered to pay $Y to the family, and would put this new income towards paying that.
-Family is represented by Everytown, so Everytown gets Z% of the $Y from the settlement, which might even be close to or equal to the initial $X.

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Originally posted by walker77:
That's going to be a lot of 4473's

A lot of 4473s for what?

Cool, everytown is now a gun dealer?

Jimenez, one of the last member of the "Ring of Fire" gun makers in the Los Angeles area, because of the Gun Control Act of 1968 which banned the importation of fine small handguns from Europe...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages.../ring/companies.html

A reminder, the GCA became legislation mainly due to Democrats having control of the Congress and White House.