I unfortunately still fail to see the outrage.
On one hand, 'they couldn't know' how the guns were confiscated. That isn't their job either. The PD handled the legal part, and they helped out when it was asked of them. For all any of us knows, that SKS could be an illegally modified MG. It is on the police, how or why they were in possession of those guns, and Benchmade has legitimate plausible deniability. I would feel different if there was an ongoing door to door gun confiscation going on, because then Benchmade would straight up know that they were aiding and abetting a constitutional crime. But in this case, all they were doing was being a good neighbor to the local PD.
The donations is a bit more concerning, now that I have seen the breakdown, but not so much to provoke outrage. I refer back to my previous response, which still stands, but I also now see that it is pretty clear that the owner of the company leans left. (so do my parents-in-law, Hard left, and I still associate with them) The out of state contributions may have a good explanation, which is none of our business to know.
The chart showed contributions to a leftist from Massachusetts... but they also showed some to Sen. Scott Brown, a tea party Republican from Massachusetts. Makes me think that they were really trying to butter up to folks in the Pilgrim State. Why? Who knows. Maybe they wanted to look at relocating. Maybe to get a contract. We don't know. But the nature of donating to two very different Massachusetts politicians would seem to tell us that the contributions were a means to an end.
I am about as pro gun as I can possibly be, but I reject the idea that a person must be shunned if they are not ideologically pure. That is what the leftists do, and while the time may yet come for us to do the same, it is not yet.