Magpul May Leave Colorado

[Oh Shoot]

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

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- OS

Edited February 12, 2013 by Oh Shoot

[Caster]

Come to Tennessee!!!!

[Wyldk2]

Yes, we'd welcome them here.

[Guest ThePunisher]

Good for Magpul for recognizing commie gun grabbers. Tennessee would be a good place to make their wonderful products.

[hipower]

Just don't tell Jim Cooper, Bob Corker, or lamar Alexander. There might be a possibility of something good happening if they are left out of the loop.

[npgunner]

Wish more companies would come out and make a stand like this.

[TrickyNicky]

Keeping my fingers crossed they will come on out to Nashville. And soon.