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Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sat, 08/19/2006 - 10:25am.
The Olympia weapons industry! I just found this article via Alternet. Here's a link (to the SPLC orginal): Big Bang
Wearing orange foam earplugs to muffle the nearby thunder of relentless automatic weapons fire, a grizzled man with SS lightning bolt tattoos on his forearms pulls a little red wagon loaded with rifle ammunition. Carefully picking his way through the teeming crowd, he passes table after table laden with machine guns, gas masks, combat knives, war memorabilia and bomb-making guides. The man sheds his camouflage tactical vest to reveal a worn black T-shirt emblazoned with a Totenkopf, the Death's Head symbol of the Waffen SS. Then he parks his wagon to join a huddle of shoppers surrounding a hard-faced spokeswoman from Valkyrie Arms who's extolling the virtues of the Olympia, Wash.-based arms maker's new product, the Valkyrior 556 Rotary Gun.

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[edit] Here are a couple of excerpts:
""We just shipped a load of these babies to civilian security contractors in Iraq for convoy protection. When I go to sleep tonight, I'll dream of towel heads splattering all over the place."

"We need to ship a few to the border and start splattering Mexicans," he says."

And:
""When municipal, township, county, or local area law enforcement agents attack or seek to confine or control the U.S. Militia or its individual members, those agencies should be totally eliminated in the initial attack," the handbook advises. "Do not allow any law enforcement agents to escape. Kill them all.""
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These people are lunatics.I

These people are lunatics.

I think they should have every right under the First and Second Amendments to assemble and fire as many guns as they want on their property, but that's about as much as I can defend these types of groups.

I don't agree with the last excerpt, but only because I agree with the notion that one should demonstrate an enormous amount of mercy and exercise restraint toward their countrymen in a civil conflict.

"I am for free commerce with all nations, political connection with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe, entering that field of slaughter to preserve their balance."

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Guns and Racists

I wonder how Valkyrie guns feels about being associated with white supremacists. After all, it was their decision to showcase their wares at this convention, which is known to attract racists. And their spokeswoman who said that she will dream of her weapon killing people ("towelheads" in her speak) in Iraq.
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Hmmm

Never heard of them.
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Check them out

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Whoa

Good find! Thanks muchly for posting this.
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