I hope they follow through on this and aren't just rattling their sabres.

Apparently Gov Hickenlooper has announced that he will sign HB 1224 on Wednesday. We were asked for our reaction, and here is what we said:

We have said all along that based on the legal problems and uncertainties in the bill, as well as general principle, we will have no choice but to leave if the Governor signs this into law. We will start our transition out of the state almost immediately, and we will prioritize moving magazine manufacturing operations first. We expect the first PMAGs to be made outside CO within 30 days of the signing, with the rest to follow in phases. We will likely become a multi-state operation as a result of this move, and not all locations have been selected. We have made some initial contacts and evaluated a list of new potential locations for additional manufacturing and the new company headquarters, and we will begin talks with various state representatives in earnest if the Governor indeed signs this legislation. Although we are agile for a company of our size, it is still a significant footprint, and we will perform this move in a manner that is best for the company and our employees.

It is disappointing to us that money and a social agenda from outside the state have apparently penetrated the American West to control our legislature and Governor, but we feel confident that Colorado residents can still take the state back through recalls, ballot initiatives, and the 2014 election to undo these wrongs against responsible Citizens.

https://www.facebook.com/magpul/posts/574891122523241

It seems they do wish to retain as many as possible.

I fear the last paragraph is a harbinger of what is to come and the cost of authoritarians meddling in local politics...

Magpul isn't the only company that's pulling stakes.

Specialty Sports and Supply is canceling plans to open two new stores and the owner is moving the corporate offices out of state.

And the Colorado Association of County Sheriffs is planning a class action suit.

Much as I hate to see folks lose their jobs I support both business owners in their decisions

Buh bye! :middlefinger:

which equates to more tax revenue and potential dollars spent leaving the state

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That's just vile, do you not realize that you are talking about real people with real children to feed and real bills to pay?

Fuck 'em though, they're just a bunch of republican rednecks right? (whether they are or not)

My how compassionate

I'd suggest you talk to the owners of Specialty Sports. Nobody is MAKING them move and fire these people.

Be compassionate and let them no how badly you feel for their employees!

but I don't blame them for leaving a state that doesn't want their business. Money talks, and sometimes its best to vote with your wallet, and if you disagree, then I see nothing wrong with moving to a new state.

that you have zero empathy for people who you perceive as having a different ideology than you. You don't give a fuck if they lose their jobs, as long as they're gun owners fuck 'em.

You disgust me

These are real people who pay real taxes and real bills and are fixing to lose real jobs with real benefits which will have a real impact on their lives and cause real pain.

But fuck 'em they're just republicans

People like you are the exact reason republicans call progressives hypocrites

If there's anything the avalanche of gun-related "discussion" (and I use the term lightly...) here has demonstrated, it's that in the eyes of far too many posters, it's a really fucking small tent after all. The neo-totalitarians can pretend all they want, but they're not liberals and they're not progressive.

Illustrative, though...

The regressives win...

replies down here in the Gungeon from folks who don't like this sensible, common-sense, and needed trifecta of legislation. Why is that, I wonder?




Good on the Democratic governor and Democratic state legislature that got Colorado started on the road to some semblance of sanity when it comes to guns.

There: fixed it for you.

these measures passed by a Democratic state legislature and signed into law by a Democratic governor.

Look like someone posting on Democratic Underground doesn't care too much for progressives and liberals. Or Democrats: " A Democratic governor pandering to idiots"

One wonders ever why?

To ask the question is to answer it.

You're spectacularly underqualified...

I said precisely what I meant: the portion of the electorate (some of which are, embarrassingly, fellow progressives) naive and uninformed enough to actually believe these measures* will have any meaningful effect on gun violence. "Idiots" just takes a lot less long to type.

*Specifically weapon type bans and magazine capacity limits...as opposed to measures that might actually accomplish something, like universal checks, prison terms for traffickers/straw purchasers, etc...

words in other people's mouths."

You literally couldn't make such priceless hypocritical contradictions up.

"Post as I say, not as I post!!!!11"



* http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=115611

governor are pandering to "idiots," i.e., their constituents, the vast majority of whom are liberals and progressives and even more moderate and conservative Democrats. You are stating that you think Colorado Democrats in general and progressives and liberals in particular are "idiots" - I'm quoting you EXACTLY - and are only now starting to see how that looks on a discussion board called Democratic Underground, and are now trying to walk it back and explain your very clear statement away.

You do know that on DU3 you can always self-delete a post, don't yah?

You really need to work on your strawman building skills.

Seriously, stop trying to tell me what I'm thinking. You're in way, way over your head, kiddo.

assume that your thinking has something to do with what you type and then post on a public message board. If the two are not connected, well, that's not my problem, but yours.

That aside, here's what you POSTED:

"A Democratic governor pandering to idiots by signing useless, feel-good legislation...

There: fixed it for you."

Every subsequent reply by me has been a spot-on analysis of that rather curious statement for a supposed Democrat on a Democratic discussion board to post: there hasn't been a speck of "telling you what to think."

Funny stuff.

so well...

"there hasn't been a speck of 'telling you what to think.'"

Nor did I claim there was.

RIF...

You blurted out some twaddle about "telling [me] what to think" when what I actually said was different.

Derp.

Keep it up. It's redeeming my gutter-low opinion of you via the time-tested method of unintentional comedy.

Pure comedy gold: you not recognizing the difference between "telling me what I think" and "telling me what to think."

Your sig already told me everything I really needed to know about both your intelligence and character, of course. This is just frosting on an unpalatable cake.

Well, actually more comicbook than textbook, but I suppose I have to consider the source.

Did you figure out where you fucked up yet, sparky?

I already demonstrated where you fucked up, sparky. Whether you're too stupid or too stubborn to understand and/or move on is immaterial. You continuing to repeat the same fuckwittery just adds to the comedy. By all means, keep flailing...you're actually too (unwittingly) entertaining to put on Ignore, at least for the time being.

How would mandatory background checks between 2 neighbors/family members swapping guns or selling to one another be accomplished without a complete State Government registration and inventory of all existing guns on the date the law goes into effect ?

the plague of unrestricted guns and the bloody consequences of the "RKBA enthusiast" ( see sig line ) culture and gun lobby.

equate those who support legitimate reasonable use of firearms to "' racism, sexism, homophobia, and hate" ?

Even just normal use like Obama's skeet shooting?

Can you please clarify your sig line since you referred to it in the post?

are having trouble reading what my sig line says or having trouble understanding the words used in the sentences that compose it?

Just trying to get a feeling for what the comprehension problem is here.


"Can you please clarify your sig line since you referred to it in the post?"

No. It's clear enough as is.