Stevensville, Montana rifle maker, Cooper Firearms bounces founder who supports Obama
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| October 30, 2008 |  View for printing |
By Ken Dilanian, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Montana gunsmith Dan Cooper has been ousted as chief executive of the rifle company that bears his name after pressure from gun owners who are angry that he is supporting Democrat Barack Obama.
Cooper, founder and part owner of Cooper Firearms http://www.cooperfirearms.com/ , told USA TODAY in a story published Tuesday that he has voted for Republicans for most of his life, but he is backing Obama "probably because of the war. And also because the Republican Party has moved so far right in recent years." Cooper said he was attracted to the Democrat's message about "the retooling of America, which involves the building of middle-class jobs and helping American small business be competitive with those overseas."
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(Original Story in USA Today)
More executives sold on Obama
By Ken Dilanian, USA TODAY
Dan Cooper, a proud member of the National Rifle Association, has backed Republicans for most of his life. He's the chief executive of Cooper Arms, a small Montana company that makes hunting rifles.
Cooper said he voted for George W. Bush in 2000, having voted in past elections for every Republican presidential nominee back to Richard Nixon. In October 1992, he presented a specially made rifle to the first President. Bush during a Billings campaign event.
This year, Cooper has given $3,300 to the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama. That's on top of the $1,000 check he wrote to Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2004, after he was dazzled by Obama's speech at that year's Democratic National Convention.
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Historians write that great civilizations are destroyed from within. Senator Obama, while remarkably articulate when speaking from a prompter, has never left me anything but bored; I have always been, however, totally resistant to hypnotic suggestion. I’ve never met Mr. Cooper, but it is beyond me how any NRA Member, let alone a life member, could be un-familiar with the Senator’s stand on private ownership of firearms. Until the Heller decision this past summer, he never saw a gun-grabbing attempt that he didn’t like, and he was on the wrong side of Heller until the evening the decision was handed down. All of that is thoroughly documented in NRA publications and mailings. The fact that his web site has statements to the contrary should serve only to demonstrate his penchant for prevarication! You or I could not pass a background check for a sensitive government job if we had the associations that Senator Obama has. Refusing to produce his birth certificate would disqualify him for a job in the White House that he wishes to call home! As for building the economy and improving the business climate, I’m convinced that he didn’t know what the payroll tax was until the last couple of weeks. He has no concept of how small business operates because he has never had to make a payroll or read a profit and loss statement. I could easily go on for another hour or more, but it’s late and my arthritis has been flaring up so missing sleep is not an option. Sad though it is, the right decision was made in this case. |
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