If you make gun safes, and you call yourself “Liberty Safe,” here’s a little business tip: Be true to your brand. Otherwise, you might find yourself on the receiving end of a ruinous boycott.

We offer this unsolicited advice because the aforementioned company has gotten itself into some much-deserved hot water for having provided the election-rigging FBI with the password to the safe of one of its customers. As Fox Business reports, “Outrage against the Utah-based safe manufacturer began Monday after conservative commentators Keith and Kevin Hodge, known as the Hodge Twins, posted the revelation on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.”

For the FBI to demand the combination to an American citizen’s safe — which to us sounds like a clear violation of our Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful search and seizure — we’d expect that a very serious crime had been committed. We’d expect, for example, that the FBI has probable cause to believe that the safe contains evidence of a heinous crime, such as a premeditated murder, or that it contains evidence of an act of espionage or treason or other exceedingly high crime.

But we’d be wrong. As the Hodge Twins pointed out recently in a lengthy post:

Last week, a friend of ours was raided by the feds over J6, his name is Nathan Hughes and he’s from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Nate was raided by the FBI and arrested at gun point. His girlfriend (who just had a miscarriage) was held at gun point and put in handcuffs. The FBI turned off his security cameras, unplugged his internet, and flipped his house upside down in a search. The feds called the manufacturer of his Liberty Gun Safe and got the passcode to get into it too. All for protesting at the Capitol over 2 ½ years ago.

He is being charged with crimes related to January 6th. He didn’t assault anyone and he didn’t vandalize anything. He is being labeled a domestic terrorist and a traitor to his country by woke leftists and the media.

The entirety of the Fourth Amendment reads as follows: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Sadly, we’ve come to expect this sort of two-tiered hyper-partisan behavior from the FBI. But Liberty Safe? The company should’ve lawyered up and respectfully told the bureau to pound sand. And then taken the bureau to court. And then, if necessary, appealed. And then appealed again. And again.

It would be one thing if this J6 attendee had, say, brandished a gun on the Capitol steps; or smashed a cop in the head with a fire extinguisher, as The New York Times erroneously and repeatedly reported; or tried to light the Capitol building on fire, as antifa thugs attempted to do to a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, during the George Floyd riots of 2020.

But no. By all accounts, this man did nothing more serious than exercise his First Amendment right to political speech in the form of peaceful protest. (If it turns out that we’re wrong about this, we’ll say so.)

As the Hodge Twins’ post continues: “Nate is just like us … he’s an outspoken American Patriot … he loves freedom, loves his country, and would do anything to preserve our rights. He’s been fighting to save our country for years now. He’s also a small business owner with a family that relies on him. We all know how heated this political climate is getting, but they’ve pushed too far and it’s time for people to speak up for people getting screwed by the system. BLM and Antifa can go burn down our cities and get off the hook, but Trump supporters get raided and rounded up for protesting.”

Sure enough, Liberty Safe is now engaged in damage control. “At Liberty Safe, we are dedicated to safeguarding the rights and privacy of all our customers,” begins a company post on X. “It is a promise that remains deeply personal to our employees and leadership.”

Rubbish. You can read the rest if you’re interested.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk posted to X that the safe company shouldn’t have cracked: “Liberty Safe is an enemy to gun owners. They could have fought the warrant — like Apple did — instead they buckled and bent over. Your guns are not safe with @libertysafeinc Boycott. Ridicule. Ruin their company.”

Michael Seifert, founder of conservative online marketplace PublicSq., doesn’t like what he sees either: “No Safe company should ever have access to the property of their customers, let alone sell them out to the feds,” Seifert posted in response to Liberty’s statement. “It’s an unbelievable breach of privacy. Give them the Bud Light treatment.”

The Bud Light treatment? That sounds about right to us.