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Standing up to the manufacturers of these weapons of war isn’t enough. They are shielded by lobbyists and legal protections, making them hard to stop in traditional ways.
That’s why we’re taking action—not by going after the gun makers directly, but by targeting the companies that do business with them… those one step away. Retailers. Lawyers. Brands that power their supply chains.
By taking action against businesses that support gun makers, we can disrupt the systems that allow mass shootings to continue.
We are one step away from saving lives.
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Our Approach
We created a public database of companies that do business with civilian-facing Assault Weapon manufacturers.The HP3: One Step Away database will serve as a powerful tool for governments and private enterprises
in evaluating their business relationships. And daily consumers can make a difference with each of their purchases.Highland Park Peace Project
2026
About HP3: One Step Away – Highland Park Peace Project
We can make good use of their database. We look there for companies we want to do business with (those labeled enablers) and who we wish to avoid doing businesses with (those labeled heroes).
See also: Illinois group wants to shame companies who work with firearms industry.
Their “heroes” list doesn’t seem all that useful – it lists lots of companies that just…have nothing to do with guns in general. 84 Lumber? Really?
And “Academy Sports”, which SELLS firearms, is listed as an “exposed enabler”. Um, yeah, thanks for the advertising?
They are acting like it’s some useful list, but from scanning over some of it, it really doesn’t seem to be anything but “do they sell guns”.
They also include companies that ban the carry guns in their stores. Those can be useful.
Operation Chokepoint redux.
With the government involvement, but yes.
NGOs are a shadow government.
Voluntarily. if they can show that the public supports this “shunning, then it’s not a top- down ban and action by Congress is warranted to support the greater public.
Can NGOs send armed men to kill you in your house, that you have no right to shoot? If the answer is NO, they aren’t a government. If the answer is Yes, put badges on them.
Operation Chokepoint was (is – I’m cynical enough to believe it’s still secretly in action) a run-in-parallel version of the usually run-in-serial ploy of “First they came for…” It targeted both things that the “traditional right” opposed and things that the “stereotypical left” opposed, so that neither side would complain too loudly about the program as a whole. (The “…so I didn’t say anything” part.)
This “Boycott the gun things!” just emulates a piece of Operation Chokepoint, not the whole thing.
Looking over the home page, their listing of manufacturer’s shows rooking numbers. They decry how these companies pour out hundreds of thousands (try millions) of military grade assault weapons, and then list the mass killings – 11 here, 26 there. Those are equivalent to boating deaths nationwide on a long weekend. Hard to support the rhetoric when your data is so weak.
Mass killings: fewer than the number murdered by gangsters on a slow weekend.
Mass killings started with the Texas tower in 1966.
They make news, but they can’t reach the number killed in the inner city in a month.
Leftists treat criminal activity like weather events- hurricanes and tornadoes, or Earthquakes. unpredictable and simply to be ignored.
Far safer to target lawful people who have too much at stake to revolt, and tactically ignorant, too. Safer to target them, like the people who could only sit in the dark their apartments and wait for the Cheka come for them.
“Mass killings started with the Texas tower in 1966.”
No, it’s quite a bit older than that. Even just simple pointing out the largest school mass killing proves that – the Bath School bombing in 1927. Killed 44.
And not all of the explosives went off, or it would have been worse.
True. I do think it began its modern acceleration then.
As best I can tell, the “modern acceleration” started with Columbine – the media coverage functionally rewarded the killers (even though they were already dead), at least in the eyes of those who might follow them.
I’m certainly not an expert, though, so if someone has good numbers, I could be convinced of another event… the guy on the tower in Texas, perhaps? I don’t think so… but I could easily be wrong. I don’t have nearly as much data on it as I would like to advocate for any one event more strongly than that.
Someone else that apparently has never heard of the Streisand Effect
Lots of duplicate entries and some factually wrong information on the enablers list.
Either that or I’ve been missing an opportunity to have GrabAGun ship me an assault weapon right to my door.
And sadly I either already know about most of them, or live far enough that it’s probably not worth the drive.
There’s an “interesting” phrase that shows how they lump lawful owners with the criminal element:
“civilian-facing Assault Weapons”
how many FOID holders in Chicago murdered someone in, say, the last ten years? I would hazard a guess that it is fewer than the number murdered by gangsters on a slow weekend. The criminal element also does not use or illegally possess the Assault rifle lookalikes favored by target shooters.
Repeating the obvious here, the real fear about AR-15 style semi autos is that they are potentially “Government-facing”, so your engineer with the reloading hobby and others have to become demons.
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Two obvious questions, and one obvious answer:
First of all, who is actually sponsoring this? That one has the obvious answer: the usual billionaires who love the power trip of a defenseless population.
Second of all, who are they really trying to convince? Back when the Fast and Furious scandal came out, a lot of people were wondering why the Obama regime was sending guns to Mexico, when few Americans were particularly knowledgeable or caring about Mexican internal affairs. The answer was that they weren’t trying to convince the American people; they were trying to convince the Bush machine, at that time the BSD’s of the Republican party, who had close ties to the then ruling party in Mexico. So once again, at whom is this aimed?
Seems like a shallow list, not well backed up by evidence.
Carhartt? Buying a winter coat from Carhartt supports “anti-gun efforts”? How, exactly? What percentage of the retail cost of a coat goes – directly, or indirectly – to influencing, positively – or negatively – sale or purchase of firearms or firearms-related equipment?
Waffle House? All the Waffle Houses near me have “please don’t bring guns into the store” signs on them so they’re a no-go already (I wish they’d change, I really miss those drunk 2AM chair-throwing championships…).
Something like Costco I get; the head of Costco is a BIG anti-gun supporter who donates dollars heavily to anti-gun organizations; part of every dollar spent at Costco goes into his pocket and part of that gets donated to anti-gun organizations. Which is one of the reasons I don’t have a Costco membership, but not the reason. Sam’s Club is on their “bad enabler list,” meaning, I suppose, that the Sam’s Club Board of Directors has daily conference calls with all the dreaded gun manufacturers, but I don’t have a “Death Dealing Gun Enabler” Sam’s Club membership, either. I’d wager there’s a far larger group of consumers who avoid spending with Walmart and Sam’s because of their strong ties to Chinese suppliers than there is who avoid them because of their “gun enabling.”
I have no problem with putting forth a little effort to direct my spending toward “our side” and away from theirs, I do that already, and were a list such as this constructed to be easily searchable I wouldn’t mind using it occasionally, but there are limits.
ETA: I searched their list and Kraft Foods, which owns Mondelēz International, which owns Nabisco, isn’t on the list, so I guess it’s safe for us gun owners to keep buying the Premium brand of saltine crackers as long as we do it at Evil Enabler Walmart and not at HP3’s Hero Food Lion.
They would reduce more deaths if they banned hammers instead of rifles and motorcycles instead of handguns, but idiots must idiate.
If they really wanted to “disrupt the systems that allow mass shootings to continue”, they’d focus on hateful liberal rhetoric that eggs on mentally unstable folks to shoot people.
A list like this only works at the B2B level. Can you imagine a B2C company like Buffalo Wild Wings actually checking every customer to make sure they didn’t donate to FPC, aren’t an IDPA range officer, or an NRA member or gun owner? Think of what would be required to do that!
(I’ve made a lot of Costco purchases that have gone on my range or in my reloading room.)
If the BoD of a B2C hero really wanted to shun pro gun customers, they’d put a “2nd Amendment Sucks!” sign over their shop.
Or a carry ban notice on the door.
Standing up to the manufacturers of these weapons of war….
Point of order: Name one country whose military fields semi-auto AR-15s as a main battle rifle, instead of select-fire M16s or M4s (or ANYTHING ELSE capable of full-auto).
I’ll wait.
What we NEED are laws that make it illegal to directly attack an enumerated Right, one that MANDATES prison time for those doing so. Never going to happen but it’s the ONLY way to end the NEVER ENDING ASSAULT on freedom by the communist left.