Glock exec testified he would keep doing business with indicted dealers because... wait for it...

[caseymoz]

43. First, are all gun company clients really distributors?

As far as I could tell, (without reading the article yet, it's late) this discussion might refer to the few times manufacturers items go directly to dealers. Perhaps the discussion is exclusively about that group.

Second, I admire you for doing the math. If, however, I continue the math, I find that 6,500 reported crimes committed with guns sold to disqualified persons, that's 130 reported crimes per state, per year. To me, that sounds like a lot. And if you assume the number of guns sold that way is going to increase at that rate yearly in the criminal population, there's a real problem you shouldn't ignore.

Either way, it's pretty dickish for them not to point out what you have as their defense and say we'll do what we can with the few dealers we work with. Instead they say, essentially, we'll ignore the problem because we can, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.