Read Remington’s Response Here

There is a TV show called “Fear the Walking Dead.” And today in America, we are faced with at least 12 million of the Walking Dead, which is how many people supposedly watched the 60 Minutes broadcast from this past Sunday night. The Walking Dead haven’t, or more likely can’t, wake up to the fact that most of the news we have been fed for the past 50 years has been faked. Our entire paradigm has been the product of an engineered perception and world view, but that time for that has come to and end. That the Walking Dead exist isn’t the problem as much as the fact that many of us fear them.

Remington has been a primary and constant target of the fake media. And why? Because they are one of only a handful of names in American firearms that have mattered over the past two centuries. They matter today because the Remington 700 rifle and the Remington 870 shotgun are still pillars of shooting sports and self defense, and Remington is a name that people naturally associate with positive feelings about guns and shooting. Those Remingtons are made in Illion, NY by Americans, about 3,000 of them. There is little reason to attack Remington for anything, so they had to invent one.

A portion of the Walking Dead, and there are a heck of a lot more than 12 million of them, are what many have come to refer to as “Snowflakes.” They chose the left side of the fake news paradigm, and they are far easier to manipulate than the Walking Dead on the right (the ones who think arabs took down the twin towers and that the snooping security state makes them safe, and that global warming is a hoax, but that’s for another day). Snowflakes, who are generally the most intolerant of individuals, have bought hook line and sinker that if we just learn to be tolerant of each other, the world can become a utopia of peace and love. If you are not tolerant, you need reeducation, because something inside of you is broken. We don’t need guns. They are the source of the problem.

Lockstep for the Snowflakes is all that matters. Once they are told that guns are bad, that gun companies are bad and that people who support gun rights are bad, for them it is game over. Mark Twain once said “It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.” There is no group of people in the history of civilization that have been more fooled than the Walking Dead, and the Snowflake variety has a natural inclination, it seems, to question nothing.

CBS is one of the news outlets that have filled their ranks with a hit team of agents specifically instructed to exploit the useful idiot Snowflakes on the left, and this past Sunday, they ran a piece on 60 Minutes yet again attacking Remington. As you will see in the link to Remington’s response, and my overview, with the support docs, the attack is unfounded, and fraudulent.

And yes, I did watch the 60 Minutes report, but because I’m under 70, I didn’t watch it live on TV. I found a download, and it was a classic hit piece using the same regurgitated “150 complaints” on the Walker trigger, and “several” complaints on the newer X-Mark Pro.

As always, the report fails to take into consideration that the Remington 700 is not a collector rifle that nobody shoots. By their own count, there are 7.5 million Remington 700s in the market, spanning both eras of trigger. Statistically it is impossible that if there was any endemic problem with any era of the Remington 700, that there wouldn’t be thousands of demonstrable cases where the gun fires without pulling the trigger, and the injuries and accidents would also number in the thousands.

The Snowflakes won’t consider this on their own, because they can’t accept the idea that they are not unique, and that they are just a statistic like the rest of us. This is perhaps the most sad aspect of the Snowflake mentality, the need to feel special, and more special than everyone else. Unfortunately, when you boil it all down, we are all ultimately a statistic, and with 9 billion people on the planet, and countless billions who have lived and died on this same planet with the mostly the same stuff, there is very little chance that any of us can do that is truly unique. We live, we die. Three generations later it will be surprising if anyone even remembers our name. None of us are really all that special.

The 60 Minutes report includes some actual Youtube videos of the gun firing without pulling the trigger, but with such a dramatic and potentially viral topic, 4 guns out of 7.5 million is impossible if we were to take these ‘Tubers at face value. An occasional manufacturing error could cause a random case where a trigger design fires when you drop the safety, but that there is no followup to the videos whatsoever. Remington duplicated one specific case in extreme cold where too much Loctite in a production process had made 4 out of ten guns able to fire without pulling the trigger, but only one of those videos involved cold weather. Statistically such a manufacturing blip would show up very seldom, because few people use a 700 in extreme cold, and most people practice at least a modicum of muzzle awareness anyway, and we don’t point our guns at each other.

You would think with the advertising dollars you could make on Youtube rivaling “Charlie Bit Me,” that the people with these supposedly factory faulty 700s would follow up by showing that the guts of the gun have not been altered, take measurements, pictures, video, and then send the gun to Remington for their analysis and correction. None of that exists. You can make an M1A go occasionally full auto with a nail file. Making a Remington 700 go bang by dropping the tang safety can’t be that complex of an intentional modification, and most likely that what happened to those 700s.

I would have made a companion video to go with this article that showcases the liars and cheats involved, but legacy TV media is really aggressive with Youtube copyright violations and they would take the video down in a matter of hours. The impetus for the story is the father of Zachary Stringer, who shot and killed his brother in 2011. Like most firearm accidents, it started with stupid stuff. He loaded the gun to threaten the 12 year old brother. But he didn’t have good discipline with putting his finger into the trigger guard until he intended to fire, and he accidentally pulled it. It’s a sad story of course, and this was a dedicated hunting family which makes it even more painful for those of us who value families like that. If you troll some peer to peer download sites you’ll find the broadcast, should you want to watch it.

After Zachary was arrested and charged with manslaughter, The father testified at the trial against his own son, until he saw that the family could make money off of the death. Ultimately it’s all about money, and the “reputation” for the bad Remington triggers was just the avenue for one specific attorney to sell the family on the concept of going after Remington for damages in a civil lawsuit. Disgusting, but that’s the world we live in, until we rise up to change it.

And disgusting is the key word for the 60 Minutes report as well. The segment is only six and a half minutes long, but they managed to get in some very mentally visual footage in not just the Stringer case by interviewing the child shooter, but an actual animation of another accidental discharge case in another case from 2011 where a girl was killed in North Carolina, by yet another guy who played with a loaded gun and put his finger in the trigger guard. The Walking Dead eat that stuff up. I wonder how many of them turned to their partner watching the TV and said “We really should get those guns out of the house.”

In the Stringer case, Zachary was suddenly let out of prison on good behavior the day after the 60 Minutes crew showed up, so they got to interview the kid. Just like all of the scripted fake Sandy Hook actor parents, Zachary showed a complete lack of emotion for his dead brother who he killed. He neatly describes how he heard the gun go click, and it fired (like that ever is possible). He then walks you through the terrifying flash of the muzzle, and calmly explains, devoid of emotion, how half of his brother’s head came off.

They knew at 60 Minutes that in the internet era there was no way they could get away with a fact of the case that put Zachary in jail. Turns out that after accidentally shooting his brother, Zachary grabbed his brother’s gun and put it between his dead brother’s legs, to fake that he had shot himself. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, and it’s icky enough to perhaps show malice aforethought, which nobody wants to be believe, but they had to include it.

That’s a huge oops, and why any self respecting reporter or production coordinator would kill this story as soon as they learned that detail. Would one person in the whole world believe that the kid was not lying about the trigger? The jury didn’t either, and I am quite sure that they wanted to, as we all would, had we been selected for that jury.

The other case, Jasmine Thar, is a freak accident with a really sad ending. The guy was cleaning or more likely fondling his Remington 700 inside of his house and he accidentally fired it. The bullet first blew through a window, and then flew into two women standing outside in it’s path, center mass. It passed through the window, through the first woman, and killed Jasmine right there. If the victim had been in Massachusetts or New York, the rest of the story would have gone down a whole different way, but no charges were filed on the shooter in North Carolina.

This case was apparently a standard accidental discharge that nearly every regular shooter has experienced in some way shape or form. As an avid shooter it is hard to accept , but we all are subject to accidental discharges over the course of our lives. But here we go back to statistics, because statistically, all accidental discharges have the potential to defy obstructions and kill someone. Usually, in almost all cases, nothing happens. If you are always careful with your muzzle, there is only so much damage a bullet will do, in most cases. This was just one of those times, that statistically have to occur.

60 Minutes bumps right over the fact that if the Remington 700 had a specific design flaw that was endemic to the guns, such crazy airplane crash types of events would happen far more often, because no human error would be involved in an accidental discharge. The Remington 700 would also be disproportionately involved in by far the majority of all accidental discharges, because rifle bullets can defeat exponentially more obstacles than pistol bullets.

Remington’s response is extremely comprehensive if you regard the list of links. As a company, they cannot speak in the frank terms that you see here, (and I included the Sandy Hook stuff so they wouldn’t link to this or ask to hire me as a consultant), but I think they really should have taken the gloves off for this one. It is time for American’s to stand up and bang on the table and say no more fake news. No more false flags. No more hoax events to promote an anti-gun or any other agenda. The news is supposed to be objective. If you want to run a story that accidental discharges happen due to human error a lot, or that there are people who show up deer hunting with a rack of beer, have at it. But there is nothing wrong with the Remington 700, and there never was.

Remington’s Response