Is this true? Or just another crazy email going around

[338jdj]

>
>> For the last several years a company called* *The Freedom Group* has been
>> buying up gun and ammunition manufacturers.Some of the companies are
>> Bushmaster,Marlin,Remington,DPMS, Dakota Arms and H&R.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some people worry that this *Freedom Group *is going to control most of
>> the
>> firearms companies in the United States. If you control the manufacturers
>> you can decide to stop selling to civilians.What a perfect way to control
>> guns.
>>
>> Now if you do some digging you will see that The Freedom Group is owned
>> by a company called Cerberus Capital Management.
>> Guess who controls Cerberus???
>>
>> GEORGE SOROS !!!!!!!!! One of the most evil men on this planet who wants
>> to
>> restrict or ban all civilian guns.
>>

[m796rider]

Not true.

[davidj]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/freedom.asp

[338jdj]

Good deal thanks guys

[vanguard138]

I have seen that one again recently and it did have me concerned. Although I am not always convinced about the validity of Snoopes. Soros sure has the ability to pull something like that off. Kind of like what was going around about limiting the shelf life of primers.

[jwilson1985]

they would start a civil war and i thing the know that so i dont see anything like this ever happening

[jonbearman]

Soros has nothing to do with the freedom group period as told by this months american rifleman.Period!!!!!!!!!

[rushmc]

>
>> For the last several years a company called* *The Freedom Group* has been
>> buying up gun and ammunition manufacturers.Some of the companies are
>> Bushmaster,Marlin,Remington,DPMS, Dakota Arms and H&R.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some people worry that this *Freedom Group *is going to control most of
>> the
>> firearms companies in the United States. If you control the manufacturers
>> you can decide to stop selling to civilians.What a perfect way to control
>> guns.
>>
>> Now if you do some digging you will see that The Freedom Group is owned
>> by a company called Cerberus Capital Management.
>> Guess who controls Cerberus???
>>
>> GEORGE SOROS !!!!!!!!! One of the most evil men on this planet who wants
>> to
>> restrict or ban all civilian guns.
>>

The NRA has an email out about this today
This group does own the companies you list but Soros is not involved