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  • Colt to leave Conn

    Colt contributes as much as $1.7 billion annually to Connecticut’s economy (not like the left cares).

    Via Fox News:

    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.

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  • #2
    Welcome to Texas.
    Half of history is hiding the past.

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    • #3
      COULD leave. Doesn't say they will at all.

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      • #4
        They should.
        "It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!"

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        • #5
          Could leave is a lot closer than wont leave.
          Half of history is hiding the past.

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          • #6
            C'mon to Texas!
            ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh

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            • #7
              Originally posted by silverhatch View Post
              Could leave is a lot closer than wont leave.
              True. But don't get my hopes up with a thread title of "Colt to leave", making me think the decision is made and done when it isn't.

              And us Texians would love to have Colt over here.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by sc281 View Post
                True. But don't get my hopes up with a thread title of "Colt to leave", making me think the decision is made and done when it isn't.

                And us Texians would love to have Colt over here.
                It wouldn't be Frost if he wasn't posting a misleading title to accompany an article from a backwoods website.

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                • #9
                  Dumb title.

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