Dodd, Larson working to make former gun factory a national park

WTHN ^ | 3/35/02

[always vigilant]

(Hartford-AP, Mar. 25, 2002 1:55 PM) _ A Connecticut congressman and senator say they want to make the old Colt gun manufacturing plant a national historical park.

Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative John Larson said today they will introduce legislation next month to get the ball rolling.

Dodd says the site of America's first gun manufacturing plant has great historical value.

The congressmen say a historical Colt park would help revitalize the surrounding Hartford neighborhood.

Larson represents the First Congressional District, which includes Hartford. He says the cause is worth a fight.

[always vigilant]

Oh boy, this is rich.

[I still care]

Watch them eat their own on this one. The anti gunners vs. the environmentalists - unless of course they erase every vestige of those evil guns from the property. Maybe just a sign or two.

[dead]

"Why can't we melt all the guns down and use the metal to build playgrounds for the children?" < /whineyannoyingchickvoice >

[arielb]

"Look my boy. See that thing in the museum? We used to call them guns. We stopped using those things after the Democrats decided to register them and ban them. I miss those days."

[Rodney King]

Another property off of the tax rolls.

[Lion's Cub]

Hey, they don't want anyone to buy it--might pose a problem, you know....

Adding it to the bang list because we can all use a chuckle today...

[ctdonath2]

Rather ironic that they want to make a national park featuring that which cannot be featured at a national park.

[LoneGOPinCT]

Another property off of the tax rolls.

Plus, one could assume that by being a national park, the gubmint would foot the bill for all cleanup and restoration work. And as anyone who has driven past it or seen it can attest, it would need a butt-load of both.

While the thought of actually preserving the Colt heritage and its' ties to Hartford is laudable, the bill to the taxpayers for such a project will be monstrous, not unlike any other federal projext.

[LoneGOPinCT]

CT Bump

[ModernDayCato]

Okay, this one leaves me speechless. I can't even ROTFLMAO. Absolute losers.

[Wm Bach]

Well they already sold the rearing Colt statue off the onion dome a few years back. I imagine they will tear down the dome and erect a rectangular, battleship gray, concrete block federal style structure in it's stead.

[johnny7]

Yeah... and it will run over budget.

[Dan from Michigan]

That's CHRIS DODD of all people? Son of THOMAS DODD who wrote the 1967 gun bill?????

[VRWC_minion]

The place is a dump. It needs to be torn down.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Let me guess. It will be a monument to gun control, paid for by my tax money, and be dedicated to the masters of gun control, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Sarah Brady.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I thought Dodd was anti-2nd amendment? Isn't making a gun factory a park a crime in Conn?

Has Sarah Brady been arrested yet?

[TexasRepublic]

A gun factory would make a great monument to the disarming of proletarian America by the elietes, which action anticipated and precipitated its decline from foremost of the nations to a third-world hellhole.

[TexasRepublic]

A gun factory would make a great monument to the disarming of proletarian America by the elietes, which action anticipated and precipitated its decline from foremost of the nations to a third-world hellhole.

[Reweld]

I must have dozed off. When and why did Colt abandon this factory, and where did they move to??