By Col. Ron Green, USA
NTM-A
On January 18, 2010, ABC News reported Trijicon was placing references to verses in the Bible in the nomenclature of gun sights sold to the U.S. Military including those provided by CSTC-A to elite forces within the Afghan National Army. The ABC News story was initiated by Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, after being alerted to the practice by multiple sources including active-duty service members. Tom Munson, director of sales and marketing for Trijicon, said the practice of including the references was started nearly 30 years previously by the company's founder, devout Christian Glyn Bindon, who died in a 2003 plane crash. As part of the ongoing effort to Equip the ANA, CSTC-A had purchased over 6000 of the particular scopes in 2008 and at the time was unaware of the practice.
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2010-03-29 05:17:45 | Greg George - separate bible verses from rifles, and church from
The case for removing these biblical insignia could not be clearer. I support the right of Whataburger to put "In God We Trust" on their store windows, but insist on my right to eat my vegetarian hamburgers at Denny's. While I personally don't like transparent attempts to manipulate me into buying products from (holy cow) blessed beef purveyors, the use of my tax money to purchase products promoting a particular religious viewpoint is abundantly wrong and unconstitutional.
Lets pose a reasonable hypothetical: would a company led by a person of a non-Christian denomination or (god forbid) an atheist, have the same access to government buiyers. Furthermore, once the practice of buying "sanctified" weapons is in place, how (other than embarrasment after a news story like the one broken by the MRFF) will it be stopped. For gosh sakes, no one (surely not procurement officers) wants to be against religion!
Bertrans Russel, a committed atheist, tells the s...
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2010-03-29 05:21:47 | Greg George - re: separate bible verses from rifles, and church
Bertrand Russel, a committed atheist, tells the story of his enlistment in the Army. When asked to fill out "religion" on the application, he put "none". The clerk complained that it didn't fit any of his categories, and asked for clarification. Russel said "I'm an agnostic". The clerk responded "well, I'll just put Christian -- we all believe in the same god anyway, right?".
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this american company, who has been making one of the better products for personal firearms, police, and later military has been done a great injustice.
the constitution protects people's rights to practice their faith - the owner of the company had been putting these scripture references on their equipment for 30 years.
it's not promoting religion to them or anyone else who used the rifle scope -
let's see the logic in this - we are concerned about offending muslims who are trying to kill us by worrying about an american company putting a 1/8 inch size scripture (which they have done for 30 years) reference on a rifle scope -
the muslims who are using these scopes are also fighting the taliban - other deceived muslims who are not only trying to kill us, but also don't mind killing other arabs who don't agree with them - and - mikey weinstein and the people who agree with him are concerend about this and worried that it might offend them - please!!??
that 1/8 inch ...