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Gunmakers aim for greener pastures as states pass new firearms laws
Fox News / The Associated Press ^ | April 29, 2013

Posted on 04/29/2013 12:11:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Arms manufacturers in at least two states with strict new gun laws are making good on their promise to move their operations -- along with thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenues -- to locales they deem friendlier to the industry.

In Connecticut, where venerable gunmakers like Colt and Sturm, Ruger & Co. have been joined in the last decade or so by upstarts like Stag Arms and PTR, reform of gun laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shootings has left the industry feeling unwelcome. Bristol-based high-end rifle manufacturer PTR Industries announced this month via Facebook that it would be taking its 40 jobs and $50,000 weekly payroll to an unspecified new state, widely believed to be Texas.....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; manufacturing; secondamendment; texas

1 posted on 04/29/2013 12:11:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good for Texas and good for freedom!


2 posted on 04/29/2013 12:21:09 PM PDT by MeganC (You can take my gun when you can grab it with your cold, dead fingers.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Once again...

Texas 1

America 0


3 posted on 04/29/2013 12:22:26 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

States need to start asserting their “10thness”.

This country was supposed to be a republic,
and people should move to states that support the types of freedoms they seek.

If that “freedom” is socialism, move to a socialist state, and leave the rest of us alone.


4 posted on 04/29/2013 12:23:10 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hmmm, weapons manufacturers moving to red states could prove a problem for blue states.


5 posted on 04/29/2013 12:35:14 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I got a PTR about a year ago. It’s a hoot!
It’s great that they are getting to a free state.


6 posted on 04/29/2013 12:38:24 PM PDT by Rio (Tempis Fugit.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, get the hell our of these communists run States.


7 posted on 04/29/2013 12:41:37 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Correction: So, get the hell out of these communists run States.


8 posted on 04/29/2013 12:42:22 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Rio

I live in Colorado and I agree that this state no longer deserves to have fine companies like Magpul here. There are still plenty of law-abiding, gun-owning citizens in Colorado, but we’ve been swamped by liberals from the east and west coasts and are no longer a conservative state.


9 posted on 04/29/2013 12:44:12 PM PDT by American Quilter (I will succeed despite the liberals.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is Kimber still in New York?

Tsk, tsk.


10 posted on 04/29/2013 12:49:57 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (All observant Muslims want to kill you. If they don't, they are not really Muslims.)
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To: American Quilter

I just love the ideal that not only is Magpul moving, but they are doing it with the goal of going back into magazine production within a month.


11 posted on 04/29/2013 1:00:32 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Uncle Miltie

It is. Yonkers.


12 posted on 04/29/2013 2:48:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Moving out of my current blue state of New Hampshire to Arizona. Although New Hampshire made progress in the last couple of years in terms of loosening gun laws, the legislature went blue and much of that progress is being repealed. So much for ‘progressivism’.

I’m originally from Louisiana. I’ll never tell my new neighbors I moved from the Blue Coast.


13 posted on 04/29/2013 3:42:42 PM PDT by AlmaKing
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To: AlmaKing

Louisiana is home to the freest citizens of all fifty states. They’re popularily known as “swamp people”.

God bless the Cajuns!


14 posted on 04/29/2013 9:02:08 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And confusion reigns over the new laws in CT.

Not that any CT legislator, in this business unfriendly state, cares.

15 posted on 04/30/2013 2:06:21 AM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

“To hell with you all, I’m going to Texas!!!” ~ Congressman Davy Crockett


16 posted on 04/30/2013 3:53:22 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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