Magpul Leaving Colorado - Tyranny in Colorado

With the signing of shortsighted and poorly written gun-control legislation yesterday by Gov. Hickenlooper, Magpul Industries announced that they will indeed follow through on their decision to leave Colorado.

"Our moving efforts are underway," Magpul chief operating officer Doug Smith said Wednesday. "Within the next 30 days we will manufacture our first magazine outside the state of Colorado."

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Magpul has about 200 employees.  Some of Magpul's suppliers have also announced they will follow Magpul to other states.

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The three anti-gun bills place limits on magazine capacity and ownership; enacted draconian background checks; andban so-called assault weapons.  As usual the language of the bills is vague and confusing, mostly because the writers don't understand guns at all.  The bills passed by small margins. As an example, the magazine bills grandfathers magazines larger than 15 rounds, but they must be destroyed if the owner dies, they cannot be sold, and if an owner lends one to his wife, that is called a transfer and both become felons with a penalty  of 1-year in jail.)

Not so usual is that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg probably caused the passage of these bills. He pledged that he will provide enough money for future elections to protect Colorado State legislators from the backlash of the people.  Indeed the basic language of the bills was provided by Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) organization.

It is significant that 100% of Colorado's sheriffs opposed these bills. Some have said they won't enforce these bills, because they are not enforceable and because they turn law abiding citizens into criminals and that is not the Sheriff's priority.

In an interview with Cam Edwards, Sheriff John Cooke of Weld Co. related how 60 sheriffs were not even listened to during the hearings: Hundreds of people testified in favor of the bills, while only one sheriff was allowed to speak in opposition, although all 60 sheriffs stood behind that man.  (The Bloomberg fix was in.)  Sheriff spoke from the Western States Sheriffs Association meeting and said a large topic there was how to defeat these bills.

So Colorado is now operating as a tyranny of Bloomberg and complicit super-majority Democrats.