With legislative Democrats deciding that pleasing their gun-grabbing base is a more important goal than creating or keeping Colorado jobs, an array of out-of-state politicians are leading a charge to recruit the suddenly unwelcome Colorado high capacity magazine manufacturer Magpul.
From The Daily Caller:
Texas governor and former GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is rolling out a Texas-sized red carpet for Magpul Industries, the Colorado gun-parts manufacturer that has vowed to find greener pastures if a bill banning high capacity ammunition magazines, like those that Magpul makes, becomes law.
In a letter to Magpul founder and CEO Richard Fitzpatrick, Perry touts Texas’s business climate, citing such things as “low taxes, a fair legal system, reasonable regulations, a well-trained and skilled workforce and unmatched transportation and communications infrastructures.”
“There is no other state that fits the definition of business-friendly like Texas,” Perry wrote.
It’s not only the Lone Star state that’s trying to pilfer Colorado jobs. Allison Sherry of The Denver Post reports that South Carolina Congressman Jeff Duncan is also pitching Magpul on leaving Colorado for the more job and gun friendly South:
WASHINGTON — South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan has invited Erie-based Magpul, a manufacturer of high-capacity magazines, to relocate to the Palmetto state because it is more hospitable to the second amendment.
Duncan, a Republican, has been following the news inside Colorado’s Capitol, where House lawmakers just passed four pieces of gun control legislation. Among them is a proposed ban on high-capacity magazines.
Magpul is an ammunition company that employs 400 people, including full-time workers and subcontractors, throughout the state. The company’s chief operating officer told The Denver Post it would leave Colorado if the ban on high-capacity magazines became law.
And here we thought House Speaker Mark Ferrandino and Governor Hickenlooper had promised to focus on creating jobs. What they didn’t tell you was that they would be creating jobs…just not in Colorado.
So now folks will go to Wyoming for fireworks and high capacity mags.
Thanks a lot Democrats in Denver. Thanks for driving even more jobs and such out of our state. Well let me blow my anti-rape whistle in protest against your anti-gun and anti-women bills.
Voting has consequences.
I am sad to see what is going on in Colorado as well. As a native of this great state, for the 1st time in my adult life (borrowed that saying from Moochelle), I am thinking about getting the hell out of this state that the Gang of Four has successfully turned what I think will be a Blue state for good.
magpuls mags are made of polymer. Only the spring is metal.
I have to wonder, where does Magpul get the steel for their products? Is it from the steel mill in Pueblo? How much will it cost in profits and jobs to lose that customer? Do the Dems even care about those union jobs?
Although the Colorado legislators don't care, people who support the Second Ammendment are refusing to patronize states who pass anti-gun legislation. This will be devastating for outfitters whose income depends hunters and fishermen. These same people won't take their vacations in Colorado. Can you imagine all the businesses that this loss will hurt?
Colorado's government must be high. Oh, Wait! scratch that. Are they stoned? That doesn't work either. What could they be smoking? Man it's hard to say they are wacked out when all of the above are probably true.