The Brady Campaign (formerly known as Handgun Control Inc) said they did
not authorize or receive funds from the HCI Online Mall, and that neither
Dell Computer or its chairman have ever given the organization funding:
Gunsmith Suggests Dell Computer Is Funding Gun Control
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174860.html
Brian
At 02:22 AM 2/28/2002, Seth Finkelstein wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:57:20AM -0500, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
> > I'm just now starting to get feedback from the Dell cancelation of
> > the Weigand Combat Handguns, Inc. order and noticed that Dell
> > computers is listed as a beneficiary at the below link.
>
> There's no specific connection between Dell and Handgun Control, Inc.
>It's all aggregated as a referral program where Dell is one merchant
>participating in the referral pool, and Handgun Control, Inc is one
>organization which can be the source of such a directed referral. Go up
>one level, and look at the page http://www.progressivefunds.com/ . It
>lists several other referring organizations. This particular referral
>pool is being run by progressivefunds.com, so of course the *referring*
>organizations reflect those views. That says nothing about the
>participating *merchants*.
>
> Basically, the merchants are paying the organization a
>commission for business from that organization's members. I can hardly
>speak for Dell, but on general principles I'd assume they'd be happy
>to give the NRA the same deal if a conservative group wanted to offer
>referrals in a similar online mall. See http://www.linkshare.com/
>
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