WTF Is Wrong With Some People

**SemperFiArms** · 06-06-2011, 08:30 PM

I guess some folks have nothing better to do than to screw with others. This guy is the same douche bag that got Col Ledee kicked out of the eastman show 3 years ago. He also the one who called DOD about him having USMC on his clothing while he collected at the shows. I am talking about a highly decorated Marine of [span style='font-weight: bold;']31 YEARS[/span]. A lot of you guys here know why I haven't worked at an eastman show for that 3 years and how I feel towards him.

Now it seems as this f'ing prick has now involved Randy Travis from Fox5 news who was interviewing vendors and customers at the eastman show last Saturday. I just got an email from Col Ledee and he gave me permission to share it. I don't have a dog in this fight except that Col Ledee is a close personal friend of mine. I do hold the firearms that has been donated to the foundation and process the paperwork when they get raffled off. I do this for the foundation free of charge because I believe in what he is doing. When he found out that I will be going to Afghanistan to work he offered to give me the eye wear and under armor clothing. I will not be accepting any of that. I will instead pay for it so it can be replaced so others over there can get it when they need it.

This will be one of a few times I won't bash eastman since I don't know if he has any direct involvement. I just can't figure out what this pecker heads problem is since the Col hasn't done an eastman show in 3 years, just the RK Shows.

Email is below for your reading pleasure.

Armor 4 Troops

Chris,

I spoke with my atty and we're sending this guy a letter to stop his bullshit.
I spoke with Matt Eastman who says he has nothing to do with this and wasn't at the show this past weekend because Randy Travis called him and asked to interview him. He refused. He stated that he didn't banned me and had offered me tables on the floor if I wanted them. He said it was getting too crowded up on top. What about the other shows I asked. Why are the Shriners there in the first place? They have nothing to do with the firearms industry like we do. He said they have a Clay target shooting prog for the kids. This is something these guys talk about in order to get into the gun shows. No one has seen it yet.

I rec'd a call from one of our eyewear suppliers to alert me that this guy had been calling our suppliers and asking questions like:

1. how many pairs of eyewear had we bought
2. what price
3. when bought
4. wanted copies of all invoices
5. why are they supporting us since we are a "fraud"

His name is Col Davis Steve Stevenson, US Army retired.
He's the senior Shriner at the show.
He's called DOD, the IRS and Randy Travis ch5 Fox because he wants us out of business. He stated in his own words to me "the kids are more important than the troops." Everyone has their own causes they want to do, but using these tactics when we are a Fed Tax Exempt 501 c 3 org dully registered and meet all requirements of GA state and the IRS is abusive.

I ask that all gun owners and supporters of our troops and their 2nd amendment rights advise Eastman that they will never attend his shows again as long as these Shriners are there.

People were complaining to me that they are very annoying and rude if people don't contribute since most people know about the fraud they are. Gun dealers complained because attendees spent their money to them and not the vendors.

Some people thought they were part of us. I had to re-educate them as to who they are and who we are. No connection.

I have to meet with Randy Travis tomorrow at noon at the warehouse. He wants to see all our records and my atty said no way. We have private agreements with some vendors not to disclose who they are and what price we pay for the products. They give us better prices that they own wholesalers because we are no competition to them and we ship overseas. Revealing their names will void any agreements we have and then we will cease to exist.

Randy admitted to me that the only complaint he has had on us since we started had been Stevenson. I asked why is he doing a story then. He said it's because Stevenson has been bugging him for a while. What does he do when some group gets hundreds of complaints like the Shriners? He said he might do a story on them also. Lot's of luck.

LtCol. Robert E Ledee USMC Ret