Well they can’t claim it makes you safer…but it can make you poor!
Arms manufacturers in at least two states with strict new gun laws are making good on their promise to move their operations — along with thousands of jobs and millions in tax revenues — to locales they deem friendlier to the industry.
In Connecticut, where venerable gunmakers like Colt and Sturm, Ruger & Co. have been joined in the last decade or so by upstarts like Stag Arms and PTR, reform of gun laws in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shootings has left the industry feeling unwelcome. Bristol-based high-end rifle manufacturer PTR Industries announced this month via Facebook that it would be taking its 40 jobs and $50,000 weekly payroll to an unspecified new state, widely believed to be Texas….AR-15 manufacturer Stag Arms could soon follow suit, along with Colt’s Manufacturing and Mossberg & Sons. The moves could cost the Nutmeg State 3,000 jobs as well as the estimated $1.75 billion in annual taxable revenues.
Thankfully we don’t need jobs or tax revenue, right?
Good job guys!
We’ve been approached by six states who are interested in our relocation… Beyond that my lips are sealed!
Good to hear! We’ll miss you in New England, but I don’t blame you at all!
I did a double-take at the “Nutmeg State” phrase, but I looked it up and that’s one of Connecticut’s nicknames.
Seems fitting, since they certainly don’t deserve to be the “Constitution State” anymore.
They went by “Constitution State”? WHY?
I doubt that the democrat politicians in the nut state will miss for one second the republican voters who moved away.
Now they won’t need to steal as many votes to stay in office. Win!
I don’t think that this move is hurting the people that we wish it did.