Gun Manufacturer Leaving Connecticut

BarryLee · June 19, 2013, 05:20 PM

PTR Industries is moving their operations from Connecticut to South Carolina in response to the vindictive gun laws implemented by Connecticut officials. There will be an official announcement at the ribbon cutting featuring Governor Nikki Haley in Myrtle Beach next week.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...est=latestnews

Garycw · June 19, 2013, 05:24 PM

I would be leaving there too. I feel sorry for people that have to stay because of work and family.
What's scarey is this may be used as a model for the rest of the country. This is discussed in the last 1st Freedom NRA magazine.

**Aguila Blanca** · June 19, 2013, 08:44 PM

I hope Stag Arms follows suit. And then Metalform. And then ...

Ibmikey · June 20, 2013, 09:26 AM

Anybody know where Magpul is relocating? Good luck to PTR.

Hawkeye146 · June 20, 2013, 09:52 AM

I hear Colt is leaving too...

carguychris · June 20, 2013, 09:56 AM

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I hear Colt is leaving too...

AFAIK only Colt Competition is moving. They are moving to Breckenridge, TX, a small community between Ft. Worth and Abilene.

http://www.ktxs.com/news/Firearms-co...3/-/index.html

I believe that the move is intended as the proverbial warning shot across the bow. I don't think that Colt intends to move their main production operations... yet.

JWT · June 20, 2013, 10:05 AM

A start to what the other manufactures will hopefully follow. CT has shown it's distain for the industry, the industry should do the same.

June 19, 2013, 05:20 PM	#1
BarryLee Senior Member Join Date: July 29, 2010 Location: The ATL (OTP) Posts: 3,965	Gun Manufacturer Leaving Connecticut PTR Industries is moving their operations from Connecticut to South Carolina in response to the vindictive gun laws implemented by Connecticut officials. There will be an official announcement at the ribbon cutting featuring Governor Nikki Haley in Myrtle Beach next week. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...est=latestnews __________________ A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

June 19, 2013, 05:24 PM	#2
Garycw Senior Member Join Date: May 27, 2011 Location: Ohio-Kentucky - florida Posts: 1,221	Gun Manufacturer Leaving Connecticut I would be leaving there too. I feel sorry for people that have to stay because of work and family. What's scarey is this may be used as a model for the rest of the country. This is discussed in the last 1st Freedom NRA magazine.

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Aguila Blanca Staff Join Date: September 25, 2008 Location: CONUS Posts: 19,051	I hope Stag Arms follows suit. And then Metalform. And then ...

June 20, 2013, 09:26 AM	#4
Ibmikey Senior Member Join Date: June 1, 2013 Location: Now relocated to Texas Posts: 2,943	Anybody know where Magpul is relocating? Good luck to PTR.

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Hawkeye146 Member Join Date: March 8, 2013 Location: Tennessee Posts: 28	I hear Colt is leaving too...

June 20, 2013, 10:05 AM	#7
JWT Senior Member Join Date: March 16, 2007 Location: Southern Arizona Posts: 3,888	A start to what the other manufactures will hopefully follow. CT has shown it's distain for the industry, the industry should do the same.