Colt Manufacturing in CT - Time for a Gut Check? - Granite Grok

Colt Manufacturing in CT – Time for a Gut Check?

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Colt Manufacturing President and CEO Dennis Veilleux penned an Editorial on March 18th in regard to Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy’s obsession with banning “assault’ rifles.

Colt … manufactures the AR-15 platform rifles in a military version and a very different commercial version. Colt has manufactured the commercial semi-automatic version of the AR (one shot for each trigger pull) since 1963. The AR-15 has evolved into the modern sporting rifle. It is owned and used responsibly by millions of Americans for hunting, target shooting and home defense. This product is the backbone of our business and is very important to us and our customers.

Now Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says that with or without bipartisan consensus, he intends to ban this rifle. But a ban of the most popular semiautomatic rifle in the United States for what are essentially cosmetic reasons would make no one safer and punish a vital Connecticut industry.

But does the Democrat dominated state government even care?

According to Dr. Susan Berry–reporting at Breitbart.com–Connecticut dropped its invitation to Bushmaster Firearms to move its corporate headquarters to Stamford.  While there was some posturing about ownership and a potential sale of the company…

The Courant reports, however, that, prior to the shooting tragedy, Malloy’s administration viewed Freedom Group as a “corporate plum worth attracting to the city where the governor was mayor for 14 years.”

The Newtown shooter apparently used a Bushmaster so you could see where the optics might be bad for Malloy, the sensitive liberal torn between needing to create jobs, milking manufacturers for tax dollars, and his emotional need to play mommy.

We can only assume that Malloy would also refuse any move by an auto plant seeing as motor vehicles are the number one killer of children year after year, claiming between 200 and 300  lives every year.  Or maybe not.  While liberals like Malloy hate the mobility that cars give us–keeping us away from the urban centers they would prefer to pack us into like sardines–cars or not an adequate check on tyranny.  Guns, however are.

Malloy will be who he is.  Colt will have to decide how much abuse they can tolerate before they ask for a divorce they do not want.

This is from Colt’s ad campaign to communicate their commitment to the state and the desire to make the community safer.  (Colt does not want to leave, but they are beginning to send a message; if the gun grabbers make it too difficult to do business, they will leave and take the jobs and the economic activity with them.)

 

H/T Warner Todd Huston

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