Gun manufacturers leaving Colorado - now Connecticut's turn to lose jobs and tax money? - Granite Grok

Gun manufacturers leaving Colorado – now Connecticut’s turn to lose jobs and tax money?

Good title – but this might be just as applicable: Is the US stratifying / splitting over culture and values?  Are the gun grabbers making this go faster?

After all, what good is it to stay in a State that has made it illegal to sell, transfer, or effectively transport your wares?  Or that your neighbors down the street couldn’t buy your product?  Hate to keep harping on it, but Progressivism depends on incrementalism – don’t go for the home run (unless you own all branches of Government) but do the singles all the time….one step by another.  Oh sure, you can sell your wares out of state…..today.  Tomorrow?  Some of the Connecticut gun and firearms manufacturers are confronting that now – like Stag Arms that makes AR-15s which can no longer be sold in Connecticut (reformatting, emphasis mine):

As the Connecticut General Assembly is poised to pass what is being called sweeping gun control legislation, the state’s gun manufacturers say the new laws could be crippling.  “I feel like we have one foot being pushed out the door,” Mark Malkowski, the owner of Stag Arms, said.   Stag Arms in New Britain, which makes the AR-15 rifle, received yet another offer on Tuesday to move out of the state. It brings the total to 21 offers.   “They’re really good offers,” Malkowski said. “They are offering tax abatement’s, they’re offering to build you a factory.”

Lots of Red States, more conservative states, are ACHING to have them move out of Connecticut and to their State.  An offer to build you a factory will be hard to resist.

Malkowski said he hasn’t made up his mind if he will take his company elsewhere. Stag has a lot of in-state customers. The AR-15 would be banned under the new law.

 ..,New Britain-based Ammunition Storage Components makes 30-round magazines. It’s the main product and something that will be illegal once the law is passed. Owner Jonathan Scalise is concerned about what happens after this law goes into effect.  “What’s bothering me the most is I don’t know what’s going to happen to the business come Friday,” Scalise said.   He is worried for his employees and is concerned about all of the product that is still sitting in his warehouse.   “If this stuff is illegal on Thursday, I can’t have them come in here and posses this,” Scalise said.

Trust – do you think Stag Arms and Ammunition Storage Components really trust Connecticut’s state level politicians?  Do you really believe that Malkowski and Scalise believe that the Democrats that run, for all intents and purposes, the State have THEIR companies’ best interests at heart?  Absolutely not!

 Governor Dannel Malloy tried once again to reassure the state’s firearms manufacturers on Tuesday. He plans to send letters to all of the companies.   “As long as they’re manufacturing product that can be legally sold in the U.S., we’d like them to stay in the state if they want to stay in the state,” Gov. Malloy said.

Yeah – just ignore the fact that you all are illegal here.  This Gov is saying the soft smooth words, like the serpent “Stay here because we want your job base” and whispers under his breath “and want (and in Connecticut, NEED) your tax payments because we’re broke too”

The second title; it has been rather easy to see the split and polarization that is going on in the US.  Not only is it in politics (which explains the deadlock in DC and in State capitals) but culturally as well.  Abortion, size of government, the collective vs Individuals; it all comes down to who gets to decide what and what is the public morality?  The  current event outlets differ by outlook: watch Fox and you aren’t watching MSNBC.  Read The Nation and you aren’t reading National Review.  You have to be part of the community / collective versus “can’t you JUST stop and  leave me alone!”.  We see that the Left and the Right will boycott even fast food restaurants (the Left hates Chick-fil-a and the Right doesn’t like Wendy) That phrase of “conservatives believe liberals are deluded; Progressives believe conservatives are evil” shows the split all too well and with the push by Progressives, everything in the culture has been politicized.

With the effective banning of guns, and manufacturers seeing themselves becoming illegal by increments, why not move?  Sure, it is easier to move this kind of manufacturing vs an refining plant, but look what has happened in California that is trying to make the state CO2 free – those electric plants are moving.  Is it too soon to start thinking that not only will a State be known by its political outlook (Texas is Conservative) but by its manufacturing base as well?

Will manufacturing become a political fulcrum as well?

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