WHy is a tax free church allowed to by stock in the first place?
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WHy is a tax free church allowed to by stock in the first place?
Kind of nutty both referendums passed. Who are these S&W and Ruger share holders who think this is in the best interest in the business of selling guns?
Is there a shareholder newsletter?
Dont worry, they are already using your money to cover up rapes and pay for the relocation of rapists.I’d like to know where the nuns are getting their money to buy shares of these companies. Track the money and you might find something is off. I would be more than a little pissed if I found out the money I put in the collection basket every Sunday was going to fund a political agenda.
I trust their ability to turn dividends and capital gains to provide a social safety net more than I do the Government's ability to do the same with taxpayer dollars. More efficient, as Capitalism is always over Government Wealth reDistribution.WHy is a tax free church allowed to by stock in the first place?
WHy is a tax free church allowed to by stock in the first place?
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Smith & Wesson Collaborates with Western New England University
I was at Western New England U. in Springfield, MA yesterday for their end of year Engineering Expo where the Engineering students display their tech projects. One graduating Sr. did his project with S&W on Tribology (friction between surfaces). A college project involving guns stopped me in my tracks. I asked him if it took much courage to do a project with a gun maker. He said S&W actually does a fair number of things with the college and donates $ and resources. He also said he's a 3rd generation S&W employee. He was also 6'2", stood straight as a Marine and looked you square in the eye. I don't think much bothers him.
S&W recently bought a fancy machine to measure friction between 2 small contact surfaces under very high pressure (like at the sear) but they hadn't done much with it. He got the machine running and worked out the process for making the kind of measurements S&W would need. Then using finite element analysis (SolidWorks, I think) he determined the contact areas and pressures in various parts in one of their hammer fired trigger systems. Using the same materials the trigger uses he replicated those conditions with the tribology instrument to measure the frictions. With that he was able to tell S&W exactly how much of the trigger pull is from friction vs. springs and where the major friction points are. A lot of this S&W kind of knew, but now they have real numbers to work with.
BTW, one of my boys is finishing his freshman year there(mechanical eng) and I haven't gotten any reports from him of libtard activities or professors brainwashing the students.
Sometimes I think we're going to be OK.
dunno.. I have a whopping 30 shares.. LOLHow much stock do you need to own to get a vote? Right now 200 shares would be $4,736. I'd be in for that just to vote No.
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Smith & Wesson Collaborates with Western New England University
I was at Western New England U. in Springfield, MA yesterday for their end of year Engineering Expo where the Engineering students display their tech projects. One graduating Sr. did his project with S&W on Tribology (friction between surfaces). A college project involving guns stopped me in my tracks. I asked him if it took much courage to do a project with a gun maker. He said S&W actually does a fair number of things with the college and donates $ and resources. He also said he's a 3rd generation S&W employee. He was also 6'2", stood straight as a Marine and looked you square in the eye. I don't think much bothers him.
S&W recently bought a fancy machine to measure friction between 2 small contact surfaces under very high pressure (like at the sear) but they hadn't done much with it. He got the machine running and worked out the process for making the kind of measurements S&W would need. Then using finite element analysis (SolidWorks, I think) he determined the contact areas and pressures in various parts in one of their hammer fired trigger systems. Using the same materials the trigger uses he replicated those conditions with the tribology instrument to measure the frictions. With that he was able to tell S&W exactly how much of the trigger pull is from friction vs. springs and where the major friction points are. A lot of this S&W kind of knew, but now they have real numbers to work with.
BTW, one of my boys is finishing his freshman year there(mechanical eng) and I haven't gotten any reports from him of libtard activities or professors brainwashing the students.
Sometimes I think we're going to be OK.
The church has done plenty of damage.Hasn't the Church done enough damage?
For most of the country, that means putting people in jail for violent acts. You yankees have to put up with your own laws. If we could lower suicide deaths by guns, it would take away 1/2 or more of the anti-gunner's argument.It doesn't mean the company is perfect though.
For most of the country, that means putting people in jail for violent acts. You yankees have to put up with your own laws. If we could lower suicide deaths by guns, it would take away 1/2 or more of the anti-gunner's argument.
The largest shareholders are usually mutual funds, hedge funds, investment managers, etc. Most people own "stocks" by owning funds. The fund manager votes those shares. A lot of managers have SRI mandates, which is how motions like this pass.Kind of nutty both referendums passed. Who are these S&W and Ruger share holders who think this is in the best interest in the business of selling guns?
The largest shareholders are usually mutual funds, hedge funds, investment managers, etc. Most people own "stocks" by owning funds. The fund manager votes those shares. A lot of managers have SRI mandates, which is how motions like this pass.
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I would have assumed as much, but the point doesn't change. Why would anyone (individual or fund manager) invest in a gun company and then vote in referendums that go against the business model? That is shooting yourself in the foot on a purely fiscal measure regardless if it was a single share holder or a fund manager controlling thousands of accounts. If SRI is that much of an issue, either divest or don't invest in a gun company in the first place.
do I dare....boycott nuns!
I am all for allowing priests to marry, but do not think you want women priests.
Just look at some of the other religions who have allowed women to be clergy. Many of these women turn out to be stark, raving, bonkers liberals.
WNEU Mechanical engineering grad right here. When I was a student a favorite activity was bashing the crap out of Hampshire College and the idiot drool hanging out of their mouth rich kids who earned degrees in backpacking and frisbee throwing. Honestly it was my professors who were the biggest instigators. When I was a student the biggest contributors were Raytheon and UTC. A lot of people, including myself, ended up working there. The S&W contribution is nice to see and shows how far out of touch I am with most of the alums I went to school with. These days I spend almost all of my time working with Uconn students and grads. One of the things that I am the most proud of is earning my BSME. I could have gone farther, but I was happy with where I landed in life.
That's my school! I have my BSME from Western New England. When I was a student (oh let's say years ago lol) it used to be normal for the professors and students to make fun of the local libtard colleges mainly Hampshire College where rich parents send their drooling idiot kids for a degree in frisbee throwing. I hope they didn't lose their edge and gone woke. Most people I have met in my lifetime who are also degreed engineers are generally more conservative and fiercely independent.
I used to be big in recruiting, women in engineering, etc but over the years I have pulled way back. I prefer working with a single person a young woman who wants to work in engineering.
When I was a student they had a lot of grants from UTC and Pratt & Whitney.
How dare you introduce logic into an emotional situation!! LolIf the nuns really give a shit about gun violence they would go to cities like Chicago and explain to the inhabitants the importance of a two parent family where at least one of the parents has a job and the other parent raises the children.
Then instead of a bunch of fatherless gangbangers running around shooting each other you'd have law abiding gun owners who use their guns responsibly.