Now we have this and I have to say I didn't know Magpul until last month. I posted on how some firearm companies and accessory manufacturers are are now refusing to sell to police agencies from states/cites that ban their products to civilians. Read New York. I mentioned how I didn't see a real big name other than Bartlett. But Colt is a very big name. And the politicians who run the Connecticut state legislature are playing with fire.
Colt to bolt? Gun maker's boss says company feels unwelcome in Connecticut
Colt's Manufacturing, the company that has made the iconic gun dubbed "The Peacemaker" for more than a century, could pull up its Connecticut stakes after coming under fire in the national debate over the Second Amendment.
President and CEO Dennis Veilleux said the pro-gun control climate that has taken hold in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre and other firearm attacks has left him feeling unwelcome in the state his company has called home for 175 years. Proposed laws being debated by the Legislature and pushed by Gov. Dannel Malloy include a new gun offender registry, an expanded assault weapons ban, ammunition restrictions and a ban on bulk purchases of handguns. Veilleux said those measures have put Colt and its nearly 700 employees in the crosshairs.
“At some point, if you can’t sell your products … then you can’t run your business," Veilleux told FoxNews.com. "You need customers to buy your products to stay in business.”
Veilleux, who wrote an op-ed that appeared in The Hartford Courant this week in which he raised the prospect of leaving the state, said the company doesn’t have any such “definite plans.” But if Malloy follows through on his promise to ban the purchase and sale of AR-15 rifles, the centerpiece of the company’s business, he said leaving could become an option.
Veilleux, 47, said Colt is “constantly approached” by other states to relocate. Several red state governors have made no secret of the fact they covet firearms makers, an industry that by some measures contributes $1.7 billion annually to Connecticut's economy.
The gun company boss acknowledged that even raising the possibility of a move could be troubling to workers, whose roots in Connecticut are in many cases as deep as Colt's.
“The employees are what the company is,” he said. “It’s not a building with a bunch of machines in it. The company is the employees. They’re proud of what they do, they represent their community – and I would say a lot more than some of the legislators do. They’re real people.”
Malloy spokesman Andrew Doba says the Democratic governor does not want Colt and its 670 employees to leave the state.
“The governor has been clear for some time that while he does not want manufacturers to leave the state, we need to move ahead with common sense gun violence prevention legislation that will improve public safety,” Doba wrote FoxNews.com in an email.
Veilleux made headlines last week when he closed down his factory and bused 400 workers to the state Capitol so they could personally urge lawmakers not to pass gun control legislation that they say could risk their livelihoods....
...Ron Pinciaro, executive director of Connecticut Against Gun Violence, defended the pieces of legislation currently under consideration.
"We feel that because of the enormity of the situation that happened on Dec. 14, that if we just put some Band-Aids on things, it's really not going to be enough," Pinciaro said...
Yes, Mr Pinciaro you want to use a crisis to get your agenda through. The fact you're using the bodies of children doesn't seem to offend you. Then again, you won't feel the pain that the employees of Colt will feel if they leave the state, but you will feed the sense of false accomplishment you need. If it's not false accomplishment, it's something else and not knowing you, I'll give your the benefit of the doubt it's not something more sinister.
Then we got the politicians. The leftist in the legislature are so hopeful they can get more abuse of law abiding citizens through while the passions are still hot. The fact this will do nothing to stop someone determined to kill another human is not reliant to the conversation.
But a more relevant point is why do we allow politicans, serving temporary positions of authority, to inflict us with permanent infringements on our rights and liberty? Because Americans have become cowed by expert opinion, propaganda, sloth and other factors. In 2010, with the spectre of Obamacare being rammed down the throat of Americans.
If ever there was an example for the need for term limits, this is is.
Hopefully the republic lives though B Hussein Obama.
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