On Saturday, Brownell's YouTube channel was suddenly shut down. The sporting goods company took to social media to make their customers know about YouTube's decision.
YouTube quickly received backlash from a number of Second Amendment supporters.
@YouTube how can you shutdown brownells when you allow so much other offensive content claimed to be "protected under the 1st ammendment" - your one sided oppression of an oposing view point serves no one any good
— Chris Rogers (@cjrog102768) June 10, 2018
Look, removing Brownells was an idiotic error as compared to other things I see that are really violent and threatening. You want to impress me, then remove anything that has any violence at all in it and that includes islamic terrorists.
— dallanta (@dallanta) June 11, 2018
@YouTube Bring Brownells videos back to Youtube. What responsible citizens like myself do for recreation should not be judged solely by the outliers. Don't spread discrimination against legal gun-ownership. #brownells
— Nora-Adrienne Deret (@NoraAdrienne) June 11, 2018
@YouTube Bring Brownells videos back to Youtube. What responsible citizens like myself do for recreation should not be judged solely by the outliers. Don't spread discrimination against legal gun-ownership. #brownells
— Nora-Adrienne Deret (@NoraAdrienne) June 11, 2018
Early Monday morning Brownells announced that their YouTube account had been restored.
#Brownells' YouTube account has been restored!
— Brownells, Inc. (@BrownellsInc) June 11, 2018
We CANNOT thank you ALL enough for your shares, reposts, retweets and positive comments!
We are beyond proud to have the finest group of customers and supporters anywhere.
Thank you again! ??????#guns #gun pic.twitter.com/joB9QZ5LvV
Apparently YouTube learned a valuable lesson: try to stifle the Second Amendment and Second Amendment-supporting companies and people will be up in arms about the decision.