Posted on 04/13/2013 7:14:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last week, Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy signed into law what advocacy groups are heralding as the strictest gun limits in the nation, including measures that expand the state’s list of banned ‘assault’ weapons and restrict magazine capacities to ten rounds — and it didn’t take long for one of Connecticut’s gun manufacturers to follow suit on a phenomenon that’s already started in other states.
A manufacturer of military-style rifles says it is leaving Connecticut and is encouraging other companies to do the same after last week’s signing of sweeping gun legislation.
PTR Industries of Bristol said the bill approved by the General Assembly was “fraught with ambiguous definitions, insufficient considerations for the trade, conflicting mandates and disastrous consequences for the fundamental rights of the people of Connecticut.”
In a statement, the company said it hopes to pick a site by summer and move by the end of the year. …
John McNamara, vice president of sales, said PTR Industries has 42 employees. “Indirectly, we employ 15 to 20 local vendors at any given time who have up to 15 to 30 employees each,” he told CNN on Wednesday.
Nor did it take long for Texas Gov. Rick Perry to seize the dangling opportunity to attract jobs and businesses to the Lone Star State:
Gov. Rick Perry on Friday invited a gun manufacturer that has announced its intention to leave Connecticut to set up shop in Texas. …
“Hey PTR…Texas is still wide open for business…come on down!,” the tweet read.
Perry told MyFoxAustin.com he hopes to encourage gun manufacturers affected by gun restrictions in other states to relocate.
“There is still a place where freedom is very much alive and well — freedom from over-taxation, freedom from over-regulation, freedom from over-litigation…and that place is called Texas,” Perry told the station.
Sure, this might only be one company and a handful of jobs, and hey, perhaps Connecticut just doesn’t really care about keeping the gun industry around, if their new law is any indication. Guns might seem like an economically niche issue, except that this is part of a much larger trend of residents and businesses relocating from longstanding blue-state urban hubs to less restrictive, less regulatory, and less tax-intensive red-states and their growing cities. Blue states better start looking at everything those red states are doing right, ’cause they’re quickly losing the competitive edge.
Texas—oil, guns, and rattlesnakes—we’ve got it all. They won’t be changing the guns laws down here any time soon.
Crap I hate Texas, its culture, its land and many of its people.... but I have to admire Perry for completely capitalizing on this opportunity. He keeps doubling down and coming up with ace kind.
Whoa, really?
I LOVE Texas. It has a traditional culture, and genuine people. (The land? It varies, to be honest.)
And, I say this as a native Californian, and my first time in the great state of Texas was basic training (ugh) in 1966).
It's note easy to pull up stakes and move, but when I do, Texas is on my top 10 list.
Course, I'm gonna need me wonnna them hats.
If the Texas Legislature is any indication it looks like they are planing on loosing them up to make it easier for folks to arm and defend themselves.
Sadly due to the Federal government’s failure to control the border we are going to have to start looking more and more towards the Texas militia to help deal with the growing Mexican drug gain threat.
Arming the Citizenry of Texas is going to become a necessity to help protect the same citizenry from the same drug gangs that now terrorist northern Mexico. Washington is not helping us keep them out, so they are coming here whether we like it or not.
I used to live in Texas, its not bad depending on what part of the state you are in, its a pretty big state. I actually liked it down around Houston, lived there for about 4 years I think, made a decent wage as well, its very hard to NOT get a job, unless you invested half your life and your parents monied to indoctrinate yourself with liberal arts degrees, because I don’t think Texans are all that impressed with liberal arts.
I wish they would make a PTR93, I’d buy one...
I wonder what the laid off workers will do? Go postal, but make sure to use a revolver and multiple, prepared speed loaders? But seriously, what will the laid off workers do?
I’m sure parents in Connecticut will sleep better at night knowing only 9 kids can be shot without reloading.
The insanity of this law proves this is nothing but one more step toward gun confiscation. They’ll start arresting people with clips that hold more than 9 rounds. Then they’ll take the guns because the person with the 25 round clip broke the law.
RE: I wonder what the laid off workers will do?
Some will probably sell their homes and move to where the company will relocate.
Others will be part of the Obama jobless and food stamp populace.
Others can try to find another job after 99 weeks of unemployment benefits.
But seriously, what will the laid off workers do?
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From the ‘sound bites’ local TV showed it appeared the neighbors and employees were ‘blaming’ Beretta for leaving (or thinking of it) Maryland.
They could have been ‘blaming’ the State but ‘they’ can do wonders with editing - just by leaving out a key word.
But the people were griping, standing in front of the Company Plant/Headquarters....
I was born and grew up in America, and yet still I can never understand how anybody can take TV news seriously? The medium is tailor-made to manipulate the masses. If it happens on TV, it isn’t real, especially “sound bites”. Usually it’s about something stupid, like zoo animals giving birth or movie stars having sex. But even when it’s relevant, it’s false.
are any recognizable names leaving?
Is there a dollar cost ticker?
some ct group should have a “money lost so far” count up dollar total ticker.
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