http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/one-states-loss-check-out-the-millions-of-dollars-wyoming-gained-from-colorado-because-of-gun-rights/So Colorado wanted gun control. Okay, they can have it. But they don’t get to reap the benefits of gun manufactures’ business anymore. They packed up and jumped state lines to a more accommodating state. Check this out. You’re going to love it!
Magpul Industries pulled up stakes and left Colorado after Democrat lawmakers instituted a ban on the sale of ammunition magazines holding more than 15 rounds.
The ban was passed in March 2013, and in January 2014, Magpul announced it would be moving production from Colorado to Wyoming. That meant an immediate annual revenue loss of $85 million for the state of Colorado–a loss that became Wyoming’s gain–and now, additional millions of dollars will be flooding into Wyoming as Magpul fulfills a new contract to make magazines for the United States Marine Corps.
According to the Gazette, Magpul took “100 employees” to Wyoming, in addition to the money. At the time that Colorado Democrats passed the gun control, Magpul “had about 200 workers in a 100,000-square-foot in Erie. The payroll has since grown to 380 and added a second shift in 185,000-square-foot facility in Cheyenne.”
Benefit: Wyoming.
Another tidbit to this article was when it was time for the legislature to sign the bill Colorado legislator Diane DeGett made a grievous statement:
Asked why banning ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds would be effective in reducing gun violence, DeGette responded:
“These are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now, they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.”
Magazines, in almost every kind of weapon, can be reloaded.
Then, later in the day, in explaining the mistake, DeGette spokeswoman Juliet Johnson made another one.
“She simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’ which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism,” Johnson said.
Clips, too, can be reloaded in almost every instance.
DeGette’s comments went v***l in social media, and her remarks were replayed on cable television and talk radio and posted on countless blogs throughout the country.
Those on the other side of the issue brandished the comments as proof of a stereotype that the whole of Democrats in Congress are a bunch of liberal elites who have never even used a gun and should stay out of issues they don’t know anything about.
“You have the prime sponsor of legislation who is representing her party in Congress who is clearly uninformed about the basic mechanics of the item she wants to further regulate,” said University of Colorado political scientist Ken Bickers. “It’s death by 1,000 knife cuts, and those can’t fit into a magazine.”
http://www.denverpost.com/2013/04/03/rep-diana-degette-draws-criticism-for-pretty-stupid-ammo-magazine-comment/