Posted on 03/20/2013 12:50:56 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Activity at Magpul, the largest manufacturer of ammunition magazines in Colorado, appeared about as normal Wednesday morning, March 20, as it probably does most mornings.
But that industrious calm likely will change soon, after Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law this morning a series of gun control measures - most notably HB 1224, which limits ammunition magazines to 15 rounds or less.
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Magpul declined repeated requests for comment this morning, but posted on its Facebook page that its move out of state will start "almost immediately" after HB 1224 becomes law and that "we will prioritize moving magazine manufacturing operations first."
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradohometownweekly.com ...
Bet Colorado regrets the gun grab and the loss of 400 jobs, plus those who make a living selling to those 400 households.
Consequences of COMDEMs in action.
</rolling eyes>
Should rename their state to Calirado
...and a new keyword is born! (-:
Remington should get out of NY.
Baretta out of MD...
commierado
Remington should get out of NY.
Baretta out of MD...
I believe that they would all be more than welcome in Texas.
“Bet Colorado regrets the gun grab and the loss of 400 jobs, plus those who make a living selling to those 400 households.”
No, actually. My experience with limonene liberals is that the ones who make these decisions aren’t affected by them. They couldn’t care less. Take banning DDT. When confronted with the fact that the ban had cost 100 million lives lost to Malaria, the response was along the lines of, “well, that’s good for the planet.” When confronted by the 52 million abortions the response was similar. When a defense company was chased out of my town and 350 jobs were lost, the response was along the lines of; “they were military. Who cares?” Somebody who commutes from a 4000 square foot house in the suburbs in a $70,000 car couldn’t care less about losing a few politically incorrect jobs.
Just like that moronic governor of New York that said “If I knew that Rush Limbaugh is leaving New York because of the taxes I would have raised them long before” - I don’t know what Rush was paying in taxes but I bet there were more people leaving because of those taxes.
It is time to kill the tourist industry of Colorado. Make them an example. Money talks. Cripple their ski industry. Cripple the hunting industry. Shut them down. Go to Utah or Wyoming. Go to Texas for business opportunities. Shut Colorado down.
OUTDOOR CHANNEL PULLS PRODUCTION FROM COLORADO DUE TO COLORADO SENATE BETRAYING 2ND RIGHTS!
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From: Michael Bane
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013
at 4:09 PM
Subject: OUTDOOR CHANNEL Pulls Productions from Colorado
To: Steve King
Dear Senator King;
I met you yesterday after the so-called “public hearings” on the antigun bills; as I mentioned, I am an
Executive Producer for OUTDOOR CHANNEL. I currently have four series in production, including GUN STORIES, the top show on OC, with several additional series in development. My series focus on guns, hunting, shooting and the outdoors.
This morning I met with my three Producers, and we made the decision that if these antigun bills become
law, we will be moving all of our production OUT of Colorado. We have already cancelled a scheduled filming session for late this month.
Obviously, part of this is due to our own commitment to the right to keep and bear arms, but it also reflects 3 lawyers’ opinions that these laws are so poorly drafted and so designed to trap otherwise legal citizens into a crime (one of our attorneys referred to them as “flypaper laws”) that it is simply too dangerous for us to film
here.
I can give you chapter and verse on the legal implications if you need, but suffice to say that the first legal opinion was so scary we went out and got two others. All three attorneys agreed.
We are relatively small potatoes in television, but our relocation of production will cost Colorado a little less than a million dollars in 2013.
Secondly, we have proudly promoted Colorado in our productions (and have been moving more and more production into the state); now we will do exactly the opposite. What does this mean for Colorado? The community of television producers is a small one. Last week I had lunch with a major network producer who was looking to locate his new reality series in Colorado.
That producer is also a shooter, and the new reality series will now be based out of Phoenix. That lunch cost Colorado over a million in economic impact.
Thirdly, according to numbers I received from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (for whom I used to work) yesterday, hunting had an almost $800,000,000 impact on Colorado in 2012, driving as many as
8330 jobs. Next month I will be in Texas meeting with most of the top outdoor/hunting producers, and the Number One agenda item will be Colorado. Already, hunting organizations and statewide hunting clubs around the country are pulling out of Colorado, and we expect this trend to accelerate rapidly.
The message we will take to our viewers and listeners is that these proposed laws are so dangerous to
hunters and any other person, be she a fisherman or a skier who brings a handgun into the state for self-defense, that we cannot recommend hunting, fishing or visiting Colorado. We reach millions of people, and,
quite frankly, we have a credibility that Colorado government officials can no longer match. Colorado Division of Wildlife is already running ads trying to bring more out-of-state hunters to Colorado...in light of the flood of negative publicity about these proposed laws, I can assure you those ads will fail.
We estimate that as many as one-quarter to one-third of out-of-state hunters will desert Colorado in the next
18-24 months, which will quite frankly be a disaster for the hunting industry in Colorado and have a devastating effect on our western andnorthern communities (certainly cities like Grand Junction).
This is not a “boycott” in the traditional sense of a centralized, organized operation; rather, it is more of a grassroots decision on where shooters, hunters and other sportsmen are willing to spend their money. Look at the collapse of the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show in February. That venerable multimillion dollar trade show chose to ban modern sporting rifles and standard capacity magazines, and within three weeks it collapsed as all vendors and sponsors pulled out.
Colorado is going to pay a huge price for laws that will do nothing. Thank you, sir, for your
support.
Best.
Michael Bane
OUTDOOR CHANNEL mbane@outdoorchannel.com
Chickenpooper is my choice.
Springfield out of Illinois too. Time to refuse to support maufacturers that remain in democrat strongholds.
Nope... they won't give a sh*t. So long as they have their pot and government handouts, they're happy.
Or Coloradical.
Feel bad for the employees, I’d guess most of whom are good people.
I’m sure they will just try to replace the outdoors sports tourism with marijuana tourism.
Couple that name with the mary jane legalization, like here in WA state, it will be a wonderful place to live. In WA we have the coastal liberals dominating the state. They pass laws, but haven’t given any thought to the consequences. Idiots!!!!!!!!
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