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Connecticut moves cautiously on guns-major gun makers

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After Newtown school tragedy, Connecticut moves cautiously on guns; home to major gun makers
Connecticut, whose legislature has long been controlled by Democrats, ranks among the states with the most stringent gun control laws, but proposals to make them stronger ...
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[Gun manufacturers] have threatened in the past to leave Connecticut, taking hundreds of jobs with them,
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burbanite223
12:16 PM CST
Connecticut caused its own problems now it wants to blame someone else.

Your tough gun laws did nothing to save those kids, just as any new anti gun laws will not prevent it from happening again. Why will you people never, ever learn from your mistakes? It is just reprehensible that you use gun owners as scapegoats for your failure at your chosen careers, perhaps you should look inside yourselves and be honest about what you are doing and why. Make Connecticut a model for gun control? It already is a model for how ineffective it is.
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Odd. The page that I see claims there are no comments :headscratch
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DocV wrote:Odd. The page that I see claims there are no comments :headscratch
Usually I get that in Firefox/IceDragon and have to use ie/Chrome/Dragon/Opera browsers, but I'm in Firefox and see 2 comments on the page and a link to view all comments ... the link has the same comments / http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ ... l?ctab=all_&" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; both ways work in my Firefox
burbanite223
12:16 PM CST

Connecticut caused its own problems now it wants to blame someone else.

Your tough gun laws did nothing to save those kids, just as any new anti gun laws will not prevent it from happening again. Why will you people never, ever learn from your mistakes? It is just reprehensible that you use gun owners as scapegoats for your failure at your chosen careers, perhaps you should look inside yourselves and be honest about what you are doing and why. Make Connecticut a model for gun control? It already is a model for how ineffective it is.

This is not a fact based argument any longer, all of you know and understand the facts just as well as I do. Unlike me, you choose to ignore them because you don't want to use those facts to solve this problem, shame on you all.

You and you alone are responsible for those dead babies and yet you will do absolutely nothing to make any difference.

Sarah Brady was right when she said “the time for talk is over", yes it is, it's time for action and action is what you will see from now on. Like I said, this has moved beyond facts, this is now a cultural difference and the gap is ever widening. You people are an embarrassment to yourselves and to the rest of us.

robinart
1:55 AM CST

Instead of getting real about all the red ink (after largest tax increase in history) we are having the same gun control circus as usual. First (one of) proposal putting metal detectors in the capitol bldg. as if a full time police force isn't enough. Not something for school security, just their own. All the talk about "reasonable" or "common sense" gun laws in a state with some of the most stringent in the nation. We still have an "assault weapon" ban in force. Just because you say it's common sense doesn't make it so. Even better, Sen Blumenthal says we need to keep track of all the ammo puchases more than 999 rounds a week and wants us to believe it will have no cost. Really? What world is that happening in? All serious target shooters will burn that up in a few weekends. Since we have "STANDARD CAPACITY" magazines it allows us to shoot more paper and steel targets without having to reload as often. Why anyone would consider punishing responsible gun owners for the criminal acts of another seems irresponsible. Don't forget, we're the ones that have our fingerprints and photo IDs on file. We are the ones who wait for our instant check numbers to go through before we purchase a gun, and our local chief of police and the state police get a copy of the sale for their records. Does that sound like lax gun laws to anyone?
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Nothing to worry about as far as gun makers leaving the state...Obama will just issue an executive order forbidding it.
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[Gun manufacturers] have threatened in the past to leave Connecticut, taking hundreds of jobs with them,

Come to Texas boys! We would be glad to have you!
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steve817 wrote:
[Gun manufacturers] have threatened in the past to leave Connecticut, taking hundreds of jobs with them,

Come to Texas boys! We would be glad to have you!
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I think it'd be GREAT yo have all guns manufactured in Texas, and if we get ticked off, we'll just stop exporting oil , Nat gas and guns to the other 49 States and refrain from "interstate commerce regulation" of those things ... won't happen, pretty unrealistic, but would be interesting.
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Anyone think SA is having some reservations about continuing to be headquartered in Illinois?
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Redneck_Buddha wrote:Anyone think SA is having some reservations about continuing to be headquartered in Illinois?
If they decided to move, it isn't as large an outfit as people might think.

Here is an aerial view of the Springfield Armory facility Picture shows 81 cars in the parking lot.

Their current facility is 6.5 miles as the crow flies to the Iowa border near Davenport. Les Baer made the similar move to Iowa already.
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