{"id":34382,"date":"2013-03-02T14:22:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34382"},"modified":"2013-03-02T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T18:46:48","slug":"beretta-magpul-ultimatums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34382","title":{"rendered":"Beretta & Magpul ultimatums"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maryland and Colorado are taking legislative actions against guns and employers in those states are taking a stand against in favor of their prospective customers. In Maryland, Beretta, arguably one of the largest makers of handguns in the world, is being courted by neighboring Virginia and West Virginia says Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

[Jeff Reh, a member of the Board of Directors for Beretta U.S.A. Corp.] testified that the nearly 500-year history of the Beretta family shows commitment to the community in which it locates its business. The state, however, isn’t reciprocating by advancing the gun-control bill, he said.<\/p>\n

“Instead we are confronted with a state government that wants to ban our products at a time, by the way, when numerous other state governments are courting our investment,” Reh said in written testimony to a Senate panel. “It is worth noting that these states also do not try to blame a product for human misconduct.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I’d pick West Virginia. Marylanders have been moving into Northern Virginia for years and the politicians that they elect there are not the friends of Beretta. West Virginia, on the other isn’t going anywhere on the political spectrum for several more decades, if not centuries. The banter between my classmates during our CCW class made even me uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

In Colorado, Magpul, the maker of magazines mostly for AR-style rifles, made similar threats to leave the State and take it’s hundreds of jobs with them, says the Washington Times<\/a>; <\/p>\n

The company, started in an ex-Marine’s basement in 1999, is in a standoff with Colorado Democrats who want to restrict the size of ammunition magazines after mass shootings in a suburban Denver movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school. Magpul has issued lawmakers an ultimatum potentially worth millions: Pass the bill, and the business will move.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a bold threat from a company that, by its founder\u2019s admission, has distanced itself from politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My problem with Magpul is that they won’t sell their magazines from their own online store and instead tell customers to buy from retailers without telling us where those retailers are, and some of those retailers have jacked the price out of range of most of us. An item that we paid $18 for a few months ago, sells for around $50 now. Yeah, we’re being gouged.<\/p>\n

And Magpul is conducting a “Boulder Airlift<\/a>” making special sales to Colorado residents and leaving the rest of us out of it. Ya know, its their business and they can do what they want, but the rest of us who’ve been loyal customers want some Pmags, too.<\/p>\n

But, it all boils down to whether the legislators of Maryland and Colorado care more about doing something that’s not even going to have a real effect on gun violence, or keeping their constituents employed. But, they’re politicians, so I’m guessing that they’re going to take the politically expedient choice – the one that makes them look good to the hippies in the media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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