Mayor Assails Use of City Name for Rifle
From Times Staff Reports
The mayor is speaking out against special-issue rifles that carry the city’s name.
The .22-caliber Ruger is engraved with a stagecoach and “City of Elk Grove Special Edition.” It’s one of several guns marketed by a Colorado company to specific communities.
“I’m livid,” Mayor Sophia Scherman said. “This is a total misappropriation of the name of our city.”
Only 26 of the $599 rifles have been made, said Bill Daley, marketing director for Investment Arms in Fort Collins, Colo.
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