{"id":39204,"date":"2014-01-07T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39204"},"modified":"2014-01-07T16:01:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T21:01:33","slug":"apparently-magpul-wasnt-the-only-firm-serious-about-relocating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39204","title":{"rendered":"Apparently Magpul Wasn&#8217;t the Only Firm Serious About Relocating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, I noted that Magpul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39138\">had decided to relocate outside of Colorado<\/a> due to their dissatisfaction with Colorado&#8217;s new, restrictive gun laws.\u00a0 Turns out they weren&#8217;t the only firm that decided &#8220;enough is enough&#8221; recently.<\/p>\n<p>PTR Industries, formerly of Bristol, Connecticut, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/01\/07\/locked-loaded-gun-maker-finds-warmer-surroundings-in-south-carolina-after\/\">has relocated to South Carolina<\/a>.\u00a0 They&#8217;re a small manufacturer of &#8220;military style&#8221; (whatever the hell that means) rifles.\u00a0 They expect to resume production &#8211; in South Carolina &#8211; in about a week.<\/p>\n<p>The firm announced the move in April of last year.\u00a0 Restrictive firearms legislation passed by the Connecticut legislature was the reason.\u00a0 So PTR said, &#8220;See ya!&#8221; &#8211; and moved.<\/p>\n<p>No, the move isn&#8217;t exactly earth-shaking.\u00a0 PTR had fewer than 50 employees in Connecticut, and doesn&#8217;t plan to reach 120 employees in South Carolina for three years.\u00a0 Still, it&#8217;s IMO a hopeful sign.<\/p>\n<p>Like an individual, a company has to consider its own interests.\u00a0 And when the local lawmakers signal &#8211; clearly &#8211; that they no longer want a company around . . . well, then movement becomes a damn good option.<\/p>\n<p>Are you paying attention, Beretta?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, I noted that Magpul had decided to relocate outside of Colorado due to their dissatisfaction &hellip; <a title=\"Apparently Magpul Wasn&#8217;t the Only Firm Serious About Relocating\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39204\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apparently Magpul Wasn&#8217;t the Only Firm Serious About Relocating<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}