Another One Bites the Dust! PTR Industries to Leave Connecticut by Year End

PTR Industries to leave Connecticut by Year End, not that Governor Mao Loy or anyone in the CGA cares. They will just increase taxes and start another "First Five" [guess that would be the Second Five but who's counting]! Behavior has consequences.  Bad behavior usually has bad consequences. 

In a quote from PTR's Press Release, "we feel that our industry as a whole will continue to be threatened so long as it remains in a state where its elected leaders have no regard for the rights of those who produce and manufacture its wealth. We are making a call to all involved in our industry to leave this state, close your doors and show our politicians the true  consequences of their hasty and uninformed actions"

Current political conditions within the state notwithstanding, many if not most customers from elsewhere in the country will not purchase firearms, accessories and ammunition from companies located in CT, CO, or NY.  Such free market elections on the part of customers will eventually force CT based companies out of business if they stay in the state.  No matter how difficult a choice, owners will be forced to relocate or close.

Add to this market pressure two additional factors, 1) banks highly regulated by politicized state and federal banking regulators are increasingly making credit, cash management, and basic banking services difficult for "gun" companies to obtain, see the recent PJ Media post concerning the McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing, and McMillan Group International who have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years and were told that they were no longer welcome at BOA in a "politically motivated decision".  They have since found a 2nd Amendment friendly bank. 

2) The issue of blackballing manufactures of legal [some would say righteous] products you don't like [but you can't boycott becauses you already don't buy their products] by bringing the coercive, regulatory, and legal power of the state down on these companies is creating significant incentive for these companies to move to another state or offshore.  When you have someone like EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, who stated EPA’s “philosophy of enforcement" as “kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them.”“That town was really easy to manage for the next few years,” Armendariz added. And one wonders why "makers" have an issue with the Collective [other than the Takers, that is].

There is a silver lining!

An increasing number of companies are refusing to do business with any agency [international, federal, state, county, local or individual public safety officers employed by same]. And there is significant and increasing pressure by consumers to boycott companies that do not take similar action [Glock, Smith and Wesson, Remington, Colt etc. take note]. Sovereign Citizens will not support companies who arm a state who denies their citizens the right to purchase these weapons, accessories and ammunition.

And lastly arms, accessories, and ammunition manufacturers are moving to states that understand what "shall not be infringed  means.  That is the beauty of a Republic, ultimately people vote with their feet!

If I were tasked by the PTB [heavens forbid] to war game a "Coming Insurrection" [purely an academic exercise you understand] I would be concerned that all of the weapon's and ammunition production capability was moving to "Free America". If the balloon ever went up, where would the Good Shepherds of "Occupied America" get their guns and ammunition [without ammunition and preferrably the right type of ammunition a gun is simply an expensive club - especially without the "Assault Weapons" banned bayonet lug]?  No one would have been selling OA guns since early 2013, there would be no factories left to nationalize, no guns to confiscate from the sheep [having done so already] and no one in FA would sell arms and ammunition to OA now that the disagreement was "kinect" [maybe the Chinese, Russians, EU, Brazil, India [certainly not Iserial] or someone else will still take OA's dollars or some form of barter].  

In this scenario, OA better buy or take what they can while they can.  Could that be why according to a Forbes post, the U. S. Department of Homeland Security is purchasing 1.6 billion rounds of ammunitions [note: at the height of the Iraq War the Army was expending less than 6 million rounds a month] and 2,717 Mine Resistant MaxxPro MRAP vehicles for service on the streets of America [Ok where is my tin foil hat and how do I find a supply of tin foil?]. Now that's moving "Forward" especially given almost $17 Trillion in debt, a Trillion a year in deficits, and almost a 100 Trillions dollars in unfunded and unrecognized liabilities. Gotta love wargaming when you have a blank check!