reloaderguy 30 Posted February 11, 2013 Magpul Industries, currently located in Colorado, has stated on their facebook page that if a number of proposed "gun control" measures are signed into law, they will be forced to cease operations and move to Texas. I was thinking about moving to Fla. but Texas appears to be the only true free state in the country! https://www.facebook...428803833863947 In addition to the national battle to protect our firearms rights, many states are currently engaged in their own fights. Here in CO, a state with a strong heritage of firearm and other personal freedoms, we are facing some extreme challenges to firearms rights. We have been engaged in dialogue with legislators here presenting our arguments to stop legislation from even being introduced, but our efforts did not deter those of extreme views. After the NRAs visit last week, several anti-freedom bills were introduced by CO legislators, and a very aggressive timeline has been set forth in moving these bills forward. The bills include: HB 1229, Background checks for Gun Transfers--a measure to prohibit private sales between CO residents, and instead require a full FFL transfer, including a 4473. HB 1228, Payment for Background Checks for Gun Transfers-- a measure that would require CO residents to pay for the back logged state-run CBI system (currently taking 3 times the federally mandated wait time for checks to occur) instead of using the free federal NICS checks. And finally, HB 1224, Prohibiting Large Capacity Ammunition Magazines--a measure that bans the possession, sale, or transfer of magazines over 10 round capacity. The measures and stipulations in this bill would deprive CO residents of the value of their private property by prohibiting the sale or transfer of all magazines over 10 rounds. This bill would also prohibit manufacture of magazines greater than 10 rounds for commercial sale out of the state, and place restrictions on the manufacture of military and law enforcement magazines that would cripple production. We'd like to ask all CO residents to please contact your state legislators and the members of the Judiciary Committee and urge them to kill these measures in committee, and to vote NO if they reach the floor. We also ask you to show your support for the 2nd Amendment at the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb 12, for the magazine ban committee hearing and Wednesday, Feb 13, for the hearing on the other measures. Due to the highly restrictive language in HB 1224, if passed, and we remained here, this measure would require us to cease PMAG production on July 1, 2013. In short, Magpul would be unable to remain in business as a CO company, and the over 200 jobs for direct employees and nearly 700 jobs at our subcontractors and suppliers would pick up and leave CO. Due to the structure of our operations, this would be entirely possible, hopefully without significant disruption to production. The legislators drafting these measures do so in spite of the fact that nothing they are proposing will do anything to even marginally improve public safety in CO, and in fact, will leave law-abiding CO residents less able to defend themselves, strip away rights and property from residents who have done nothing wrong, and send nearly 1000 jobs and millions in tax revenue out of the state. We like CO, we want to continue to operate in CO, but most of all, we want CO to remain FREE. Please help us in this fight, and let your voices be heard! We have included the contact information for the House Judiciary committee for your convenience: House Judiciary Committee Rep. Daniel Kagan, Chair: 303-866-2921, [email protected] Rep. Pete Lee, Vice Chair: 303-866-2932, [email protected] Rep. John Buckner: 303-866-2944, [email protected] Rep. Lois Court: 303-866-2967, [email protected] Rep. Bob Gardner, 303-866-2191, [email protected] Rep. Polly Lawrence, 303-866-2935, [email protected] Rep. Mike McLachlan, 303-866-2914, [email protected] Rep. Rep Carole Murray, 303-866-2948, [email protected] Rep. Brittany Pettersen, 303-866-2939, [email protected] Rep. Joseph Salazar, 303-866-2918, [email protected] Rep. Jared Wright, 303-866-2583, [email protected] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BOOMSTICK 6 Posted February 11, 2013 As long as they can keep pumping out the good quality AFFORDABLE products, I don't care where they move to. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BlueLineFish 615 Posted February 11, 2013 Good for them. It's going to take things like this to make politicians rethink their decisions Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
papercutninja 24 Posted February 11, 2013 too many goddamn hippies in CO anyway. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
njpilot 671 Posted February 11, 2013 + 1 for Magpul! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NJCK 5 Posted February 11, 2013 Cruz of Texas has spoken that Texas is more than willing and happy to assist firearm and firearm component manufacturers and their banks in coming to the Free State of Texas. Great data point is that Texas is the only state of the US whose economy could self-sustain itself... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ITman 2 Posted February 11, 2013 I believe that Texas is going to get quite crowded in the coming years. I for one am seriously looking at retiring there in the next couple of years. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hd2000fxdl 422 Posted February 11, 2013 Good for them.. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EchoMirage 137 Posted February 11, 2013 I was thinking about moving to Fla. but Texas appears to be the only true free state in the country! wyoming is better. so is alaska. while people think texas is the be all and end all, they do NOT have good carry laws. you may be able to own anything you want, but there are alot of restrictions on carry Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mipafox 438 Posted February 11, 2013 ^Unfortunately. Texas is a great state but their gun laws are not very good. Also, they are being filled by a deluge of Californians and Mexicans. And almost all of their schools are teaching a socialist doctrine. They will probably fall faster than PA, and that's saying something right there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites