Posted on 03/22/2013 7:04:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Colt Manufacturing is considering leaving the state of Connecticut after being thrust into the limelight in the national debate over gun control and the Second Amendment.
Dennis Veilleux, president and CEO of Colt, said that the pro-gun control climate that has emerged from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has made it difficult to do business in the state of Connecticut, and that the company doesn’t feel welcome despite doing business there for 175 years.
Particularly, proposed legislation by Governor Dannel Malloy has made Colt feel estranged from Connecticut. Such legislation includes a new gun offender registry, an expanded assault weapons ban, ammunition restrictions, and a ban on the purchase of handguns in bulk.
“At some point, if you can’t sell your products … then you can’t run your business,” Veilleux told Fox News. “You need customers to buy your products to stay in business.”
Colt employs roughly 700 workers in Connecticut, and Veilleux wrote in a recent op-ed that he has only considered pulling operations in the state. There are no “definite plans” to do so, he wrote, but if Malloy’s legislation targeting AR-15 rifles goes through, leaving will be a more realistic option, The AR-15 is the centerpiece of Colt’s business.
If Colt does leave, it’s not without options. Several red state governors have approached Veilleux to relocate, envious of the estimated $1.7 billion in annual contribution to Connecticut’s economy.......
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The more I think about this, the more I think the old model should be done again.
Build company towns. I’m sure Texas, AZ and a couple other western states have legislatures to ram the laws through. Get several related businesses together and do it. One for Colt, One for the others. Spread around.
Make them attractive to build with tax and environmental exceptions. And watch them boom.
About FREAKING TIME.
Leave the socialist hellhole that Connecticut has become ASAP.
And bring those 700 UNION jobs to a right-to-work state.
I’d leave, too. Come to Wisconsin! We’ve got plenty-o-raw materials for you to work with and lots of decent, hard-working, unemployed machinists that could use a JOB!
Governor Scott Walker? Please pick up the white Courtesy Phone in the Lobby!
Please come here to Texas. I want a 6920 so bad, but I always feel conflicted about buying a firearm from businesses whose taxes support Northeast politicians who are tying to infringe on our 2nd Amendment rights.
No need. Almost every town in Texas has a nicely set-up industrial park just waiting for this kind of thing. Here in Denton we have businesses looking every day. We just moved back to Texas in July and since then they’ve got a Target and Aldi warehouse and numerous other companies.
I grew up in West Allis, Wisconsin. A ‘Company Town’ built for the Milwaukee workers at Allis-Chalmers. My Dad and both Grandpas worked there. I learned a stellar work ethic from those men; it has served me well.
You remember those days - back when America used to BUILD SH!T, MAKE MONEY, the Private Sector could PROVIDE JOBS and we could GET THINGS DONE! ;)
Quit talking and start walking. Now.
Who is John Gault?
Not that I’m against that and I’m not, but the company town model also has advantages like no chance of liberals taking over local government and enacting a bunch of communist rules.
THAT is the big thing. And when you stack up enough of them, libs can’t run the state either. Things like Austin get smacked down.
700 people that will not be paying income tax to the state...some state governments are just too stupid to be believed.
No, Move to Georgia.Kennesaw to be exact where it is mandatory that every household has a gun.very low crime rate too.I just cant figure out why...
By the way...Native Texan going back home next week. Good bye liberal Northest pukes...
I left the NE in 95. Happily in AZ (and a stint in Vegas) since. Liberalism destroyed my hometown industries (logging and related).
Ya’ll come down to Texas - we’d welcome Colt Mfg. with open arms!
Why does any company that has anything to do with manufacturing firearms or accessories for firearms base their company in a blue State?
Texas, bring it on
Welcome back. I departed the Northeast more than 10 years seeking freedom in Texas. I found and it and is glorious. I will retreat no more.
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