Is it really for sure that Benchmade is donating to explicitly anti gun politicians though? I haven't seen any break down of where the money went except it went to democrats. Oregon City is a suburb of Portland so...not a lot of Republicans around, the republicans they do have out there are probably still more liberal than say democrats in Wyoming (what few there might be). People are making it sound like they're in cahoots with like Dianne Feinstein or something. Does it show who got the money?
Might be a stretch but I could see them donating to democrats who press for more LEO/Fire funding out there, looking to get batch contracts out of it. They are a business after all. Democrats spend more on government. Maybe a stretch though.
Also this leading to people looking into their political contributions has made me curious about other companies. Spyderco, KAI, etc. I could see any of them contributing to either political party.
Benchmade does seem to have been declining design wise for a while. They have discontinued so many cool knives over the last decade. Now that I'm a little older I wish I'd have bought some of those models when I was young and it would've been hard to afford them. I still like Benchmade but I wish they'd bring some of their older stuff back for just some quick runs or something now that I'm old enough to afford them.
I guess I could see where people are coming from but I like Benchmade as a company and I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt. It seems like they were helping some local police out and got caught up in a spectacular backlash. They always looked like they supported LEO/FIRE/MIL etc.
Yes.
It is public record.
They also did not donate only to "Local" gun grabbers.
