Magpul may leave CO?!?

[Brian P]

Saw this on another forum, worth seeing here...

Magpul says they'll leave Colorado!

From their facebook page:

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, repkagan@gmail.com
Rep. Pete Lee, Vice Chair: 303-866-2932, pete.lee.house@state.co.us
Rep. John Buckner: 303-866-2944, john.buckner.house@state.co.us
Rep. Lois Court: 303-866-2967, lois.court.house@state.co.us
Rep. Bob Gardner, 303-866-2191, bob.gardner.house@state.co.us
Rep. Polly Lawrence, 303-866-2935, polly.lawrence.house@state.co.us
Rep. Mike McLachlan, 303-866-2914, mike.mclachlan.house@state.co.us
Rep. Rep Carole Murray, 303-866-2948, murrayhouse45@gmail.com
Rep. Brittany Pettersen, 303-866-2939, brittany.pettersen.house@state.co.us
Rep. Joseph Salazar, 303-866-2918, joseph.salazar.house@state.co.us
Rep. Jared Wright, 303-866-2583, jared.wright.house@state.co.us

Utah people write your politicians, Bring Magpul to Utah!

 

[Herzog]

I would hope that UT would be their choice to move if they had to. It would be awesome to have them close closer by.

It's sad that Colorado is now full of CA ship jumpers. They ruin their own state, bail into other states and then start ruining those with their political ideals too. Sorry to any CA transplants, I'm not very PC on this subject. I know that not all of you are idiots.

 

[sixstringsteve]

I'm a CA transplant and I take zero offense to that statement. I wholeheartedly agree.

 

[Herzog]

I'm a CA transplant and I take zero offense to that statement. I wholeheartedly agree.

It's not your fault you were born there.

 

[Spork]

I'd love to see them come to Utah. :greg:

We should start an ad campaign... something like:

Come to Utah, we love our guns like we love our wives.

 

[JL Rockies]

Unrestricted CA immigration... stop the insanity.

 

[dutchman]

I'm a CA transplant and I take zero offense to that statement. I wholeheartedly agree.

That makes at least 2 of us...

I'd be happy to see Magpul in Ut!

 

[sixstringsteve]

We love our guns like we love our wives.

Love it!

 

[RockMonkey]

I think those bills passed in Colorado today. I am in Denver this week and it was on the local news.

 

[I Lean]

That's not a good precedent.

 

[JL Rockies]

[video=youtube;QGTx9YUKCIY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGTx9YUKCIY[/video]

Warning: eff bombs.

 

[Herzog]

There was a huge showing there today and they just ignored it. Representatives of what now?

 

[MikeGyver]

So what if they leave CO?
Why does it matter what state they're based out of anyway?

 

[I Lean]

Representing the representative's personal biases, naturally.

 

[mombobuggy]

Funny lyrics. Once I drove to california about 25 years ago thinking I wanted to live there after four weeks I could not get out of there fast enough. Man if we could only build a fence around that place and kick it out of the union.

 

[I Lean]

So what if they leave CO?
Why does it matter what state they're based out of anyway?

I don't care where they are (as long as they make the Pmags I have had on backorder...), it's the whole idea of these bills I find repulsive. If there were ANY logic applied to ANY of them, it might be easier to stomach some of them....but that's not the case.

 

[Brian P]

So what if they leave CO?
Why does it matter what state they're based out of anyway?

A company that is back ordered to who knows when, Making a great product and jobs for OUR state revenue, Maybe even on the federal level where the Feds cant ban an item from the state of Utah when used here.
I will need to find the exact verbiage, but it is something to think about.

 

[mesha]

I don't care where they are (as long as they make the Pmags I have had on backorder...), it's the whole idea of these bills I find repulsive. If there were ANY logic applied to ANY of them, it might be easier to stomach some of them....but that's not the case.

Pshhh logic, who needs it.

 

[Herzog]

I don't care where they are (as long as they make the Pmags I have had on backorder...), it's the whole idea of these bills I find repulsive. If there were ANY logic applied to ANY of them, it might be easier to stomach some of them....but that's not the case.

They are full-bore on the production, there's just that huge of a demand.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them lay down some coin for a bigger fight & lawsuit with the state. I used to want to retire in Colorado. This makes me sad... Maybe the western side can split away from the eastern side.

 

[Karnage Fab]

They are full-bore on the production, there's just that huge of a demand.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them lay down some coin for a bigger fight & lawsuit with the state. I used to want to retire in Colorado. This makes me sad... Maybe the western side can split away from the eastern side.

I wish we could