Joe Smithson is a gunmaker. http://www.smithson-gunmaker.com/about.html
I think a big part of why there seems to be so much more outrage over this than over the molestations is that the people who defended him during the first scandal are feeling personally betrayed. I mean they've spent the last three months arguing that he'd made mistakes in the past but had repented and was now a good and Godly man, and now THIS? They must feel like the rug has been pulled out from under them.