Colt Manufacturing could start gun production out of Connecticut

Fox News:
Colt's Manufacturing, the company that has made the iconic gun dubbed "The Peacemaker" for more than a century, could pull up its Connecticut stakes after coming under fire in the national debate over the Second Amendment.

President and CEO Dennis Veilleux said the pro-gun control climate that has taken hold in the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre and other firearm attacks has left him feeling unwelcome in the state his company has called home for 175 years. Proposed laws being debated by the Legislature and pushed by Gov. Dannel Malloy include a new gun offender registry, an expanded assault weapons ban, ammunition restrictions and a ban on bulk purchases of handguns. Veilleux said those measures have put Colt and its nearly 700 employees in the crosshairs.

“At some point, if you can’t sell your products … then you can’t run your business," Veilleux told FoxNews.com. "You need customers to buy your products to stay in business.”

Veilleux, who wrote an op-ed that appeared in The Hartford Courant this week in which he raised the prospect of leaving the state, said the company doesn’t have any such “definite plans.” But if Malloy follows through on his promise to ban the purchase and sale of AR-15 rifles, the centerpiece of the company’s business, he said leaving could become an option.

Veilleux, 47, said Colt is “constantly approached” by other states to relocate. Several red state governors have made no secret of the fact they covet firearms makers, an industry that by some measures contributes $1.7 billion annually to Connecticut's economy.

Click for photos of Colt's Manufacturing and Connecticut through the years

The gun company boss acknowledged that even raising the possibility of a move could be troubling to workers, whose roots in Connecticut are in many cases as deep as Colt's.
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For production and to maintain quality they would probably need to pay for moving some of the key personnel.  Moving to a state like Texas where the cost of living is cheaper could actually increase the quality of life for the employees.   I can understand why they would not want to stay in an environment hostile to their product.

Comments

  1. Conneticutt is full of FOOLS. They are ginna lose a lot of tax revenue and Jobs all for the sake of a few new gun laws that will do "NOTHING" to STOP THE "SANDY HOOKS".in our country OR in their State.?...NOT one THING. Fools are born every minute.
    This decades old GUIN GRAB was going on way before anyone ever heard of a School Shoooting. The national gun grab is much older than the oldest mass random shooting in America....much older......FOOLS!

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