Tom Talks with Benchmade on Gun Destruction, Dem Donations, and ITA Failures | Gun Talk Radio Spotlight

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🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In Case You Missed It: Last week, the Oregon City Police Department posted a picture on Facebook of guns being destroyed at the Benchmade Knife Company factory. The outcry that followed, plus the deep-dive into Benchmade's donations to Democrats, led some people to question the company's 2nd Amendment loyalties. Benchmade reached out to Gun Talk and asked to talk with Tom on Sunday's radio show. Matt Elliott, Director of Marketing at Benchmade, joined Tom and discussed the destruction elephant in the room, the political donations, and their support of the Interstate Transport Act. Tom addressed how bad of a bill the ITA truly is for both gun owners AND knife owners (and the fact that Feinstein supports it), and questioned Benchmade's choice of a left-leaning lobbying firm.

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0:00.0	All right here's what happened okay this week on the internet the Oregon City Police Department in Oregon
0:18.2	posted a picture online with a thank you note to Benchmade Knives. And the picture was of Benchmade Knife Company, which is a major knife company. A lot of us have owned and carried bench made knives.
0:33.0	Cutting up guns at the request of the Oregon City Police Department.
0:40.0	That's the short version.
0:50.0	It didn't last long, the post got taken down, but before it did, screenshots were made, they started being shared and people are going WTF, what's going on here? Bench made knives, hey, you're one of us. What are you doing cutting up guns?
0:53.4	And then it just went crazy.
0:55.6	It went, as I said, they went viral, but it went viral in an ugly way
1:00.3	with people screaming and holler and the villagers were running around with pitchforks and torches and calling for people to be strung up practically.
1:08.5	And then they started digging further and they find out about political donations of bench-made knives and they're posting all that and it's everywhere.
1:15.0	And this happens as it has in many times before,
1:19.0	over the course of not weeks, not days, but hours, and it blows up.
1:26.0	And it's another one of these case studies of what can happen.
1:30.6	To their credit, Benchmade knives, reached out to us and say, hey, hey can we come on we want to talk about this thing? I said absolutely.
1:36.0	So joining me right now is Matt Elliot he is the director of marketing for bench made knives.
1:41.0	Matt thank you so much for reaching out and thank you for being here.
1:45.1	Yeah, absolutely happy to do it. Okay. How did I do with that description?
1:49.1	Was that kind of what happened there? Yeah, I think I think that was a fair description.
1:54.0	Yeah, I mean it's kind of like a overview.
1:56.0	It just kind of went boom. It's just there. I guess first question is,
2:00.0	how long has Benchmade been helping the Oregon City Police Department cut up guns?
2:07.0	My understanding through the investigation that we've been currently conducting is that it's been going on at least a few years.
2:18.0	Definitely not a decade, but this is an agreement that we made a few years ago with the Oregon City Police Department
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