New legislation is forcing gun manufacturing company Beretta to uproot and take their business elsewhere.
Established in 1526, Beretta holds the distinction of being the oldest active firearms manufacturer in the world. The U.S. factory is located in Accokeek, Maryland, and has been a staple of the local economy for years.
Beretta warned that stricter gun control laws would push the company outside of state lines, but that didn’t stop Maryland legislators. Jeffrey Reh, a spokesman for Beretta who also serves as the President of Stoeger Industries under Beretta, announced that the company would begrudgingly uproot and take its business elsewhere. He said, “We don’t want to do this, we’re not willing to do this, but obviously this legislation has caused us a serious level of concern within our company.”
Following the lead of other firearms-related business (see: HiViz Shooting Systems Leaving Colorado, Credits State Gun Laws, a link in my last blog article), Beretta has decided that they too are no longer are willing to add .. well, "$31 million in annual taxes" to the coffers of a state which denies firearms freedoms to its citizens.
Beretta is voting with its wallet.
Al Gore famously lost his bid to the Presidency of the United States of America in 2000 .. not even winning in his own home state of Tennessee ... because of his paranoid views of the right of individual Americans to responsibly possess firearms. Since then, Politicians have carefully danced around the question of "Gun control" because they know that such a political stance would lose them elections.
It took a Lame Duck Socialist President to bring the subject up again, and individual Liberal states have been encouraged by his example to attempt imposition of draconian and nonsensical gun control laws at a state level.
This has backfired on them; publicly and dramatically.
The President has spent this nation into a debt-crisis which is akin to mini-states such as Greece, and Cyprus, and cannot reasonably afford to enact or even encourage such unpopular laws. True to form, though, this President has decided that he can freely look only to the liberal mindset and ignore the wishes and preferences of Americans who are just as politically savvy, and much more likely to protest arbitrary lawmaking in a way which will hurt professional politicians worst; in the voting booth, and in the pocket.
The states which follow his example are now incurring the wrath of not only local voters, but also their tax base.
It's still far to early to determine whether the Liberals in this country are willing to listen to the protests of outraged conservative citizens. (Probably not: agendas are the dreams stuff is made of!) But one thing is sure: the price for voting your prejudices has gone up, and will doubtless be felt in Colorado and Maryland.
Personally, I've never bought anything from either Hi-Viz or Beretta ... but I will, before I ever vote for another Liberal Democrat.
It's an easy choice to make, even without the tax protests.
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I disagree that the liberal states have failed. They have passed draconian anti-gun laws. They obviously don't much care about jobs. It they did their economies would not already be in the tank. The libs in both state and federal government will just blame the lack of jobs on Bush, Regan and republicans.
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