Posted on 04/01/2013 11:26:47 AM PDT by servo1969
April 1, 2013, Fort Collins, CO–HiViz Shooting Systems (a division of North Pass Ltd.), announces plans to relocate operations out of the state of Colorado due to recent changes in Colorado state gun control legislation. HiViz President and CEO, Phillip Howe, states that talks are currently under way with officials of a neighboring stater egarding the move.
Mr. Howe comments, “I make this announcement with mixed emotions. Colorado is a beautiful state with great people, but we cannot in clear conscience support with our taxes a state that has proven through recent legislation a willingness to infringe upon the constitutional rights of our customer base.” Mr. Howe notes that prior to the changes in law in Colorado, he made several attempts to persuade state officials via emails and telephone calls to proceed slowly with gun control legislation that would impact individual shooters and the shooting industry as a whole.
Although the relocation will be expensive and time consuming, he adds, “It is in the best interest of our company and our customers.” Starting with corporate headquarters, the operations will be moved over an extended period of time ensuring no interruption of services to its customer base, and HiViz states that the majority of its employees will make the move with the corporate operations. More details regarding the location and timing of the relocation will be announced as details are finalized.
HiViz Shooting Systems manufactures light-gathering sights, recoil pads and accessories for the shooting industry. For more information, contact Jeff Maust, Marketing Director at (970) 484-8242 or jlmaust@frii.com.
What about Oklahoma and Arizona? Technically bordering, too.
A corner and a county, not much of a “border state” :)
I was a sales rep for a New York long Island Companay that moved to Florida. Almost all of the employees followed their jobs from marxist neo europa on Long Island to sunny Orlando
I know an investment company that just passed over Colorado for a new hospital. Seems those southern boys didn’t appreciate the socialism.
Somebody needs to run a tally of the lost revenues to the state, not just sales tax, and corporate taxes, but the state income taxes paid by the employees of these companies.
I imagine that by now it is well into the tens of millions of dollars, reaching towards 100 million or more.
To have a numerical amount out there will really hit them hard, because every lobbyist in the state will imagine that money would have gone to his cause.
Come to Oklahoma.
A great state.
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