Got this in a e-mail never looked at it from this view. What do you think? Dear Senator King; I met you yesterday after the so-called "public hearings" on the antigun bills; as I mentioned, I am an Executive Producer for OUTDOOR CHANNEL. I currently have four series in production, included GUN STORIES, the top show on OC, with several additional series in development. My series focus on guns, hunting, shooting and the outdoors. This morning I met with my three Producers, and we made the decision that if these antigun bills become law, we will be moving all of our production OUT of Colorado. We have already cancelled a scheduled filming session for late this month. Obviously, part of this is due to our own commitment to the right to keep and bear arms, but it also reflects 3 lawyers' opinions that these laws are so poorly drafted and so designed to trap otherwise legal citizens into a crime (one of our attorneys referred to them as "flypaper laws") that it is simply too dangerous for us to film here. I can give you chapter and verse on the legal implications if you need, but suffice to say that the first legal opinion was so scary we went out and got two others. Al three attorneys agreed. We are relatively small potatoes in television, but our relocation of production will cost Colorado a little less than a million dollars in 2013. Secondly, we have proudly promoted Colorado in our productions (and have been moving more and more production into the state); now we will do exactly the opposite. What does this mean for Colorado? The community of television producers is a small one. Last week I had lunch with a major network producer who was looking to locate his new reality series in Colorado. That producer is also a shooter, and the new reality series will now be based out of Phoenix. That lunch cost Colorado over a million in economic impact. Thirdly, according to numbers I received from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (for whom I used to work) yesterday, hunting had an almost $800,000,000 impact on Colorado in 2012, driving as many as 8330 jobs. Next month I will be in Texas meeting with most of the top outdoor/hunting producers, and the Number One agenda item will be Colorado. Already, hunting organizations and statewide hunting clubs around the country are pulling out of Colorado, and we expect this trend to accelerate rapidly. The message we will take to our viewers and listeners is that these proposed laws are so dangerous to hunters and any other person, be she a fisherman or a skier who brings a handgun into the state for self-defense, that we cannot recommend hunting, fishing or visiting Colorado. We reach millions of people, and, quite frankly, we have a credibility that Colorado government officials can no longer match. Colorado Division of Wildlife is already running ads trying to bring more out-of-state hunters to Colorado...in light of the flood of negative publicity about these proposed laws, I can assure you those ads will fail. We estimate that as many as one-quarter to one-third of out-of-state hunters will desert Colorado in the next 18-24 months, which will quite frankly be a disaster for the hunting industry in Colorado and have a devastating effect on our western and northern communities (certainly like Grand Junction). This is not a "boycott" in the traditional sense of a centralized, organized operation; rather, it is more of a grassroots decision on where shooters, hunters and other sportsmen are willing to spend their money. Look at the collapse of the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show in February. That venerable multimillion dollar trade show chose to ban modern sporting rifles and standard capacity magazines, and with three weeks it collapsed as all vendors and sponsors pulled out. Colorado is going to pay a huge price for laws that will do nothing. Thank you, sir, for your support. Best. Michael Bane OUTDOOR CHANNEL [email protected]-- ***** Molon Labe...
I hope this is legitimate, this on top of the possibility of Magpul and their multimillion magazine backorder moving to another state is going to have huge economic impacts over an overreacting government.
Maybe someone in Colorado will stop and say...hummm, I think we better rethink this issue. Nah, that would involve thinking. They already showed that dog don't hunt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The problem is Colorado has slowly been infiltrated with out of state money by michael doomberg and his ilk. They have slowly put there puppets in the state legislature. Those people could care less about garnering the outdoorsman money, to the detriment of the good citizens of the state.
After the 18-17 vote the other day on magazine's over 15 rounds. I will be skipping my elk trip this year and hanging on to my 550$.
It's been infiltrated by tree hugging, artsy fartsy, liberal, non gun owning, Dbags that are afraid of guns and don't like people that use them. I have been going out there for the last 25 years and it has done 180 in the political views and gun rights. It was legal to shoot out of car windows at one time.
Serves CO govt rite, they need to learn that there are consequences for their actions. Last I heard Magpul finalized that they will close their doors in CO
I have no idea what you're trying to google. I just googled "new gun laws in Colorado" and got a whole lot of hits. Here's one of them.. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...iff-says-new-state-gun-laws-wont-be-enforced/
Too bad boycotting the state will primarily hurt other outdoorsmen and those remaining that are trying to fight for gun rights.
If it works and the gun laws get back like they should be I don't think anyone will complain. Some had to make scrifices in PA at the Sportsman Show there too, but the message was sent loud and clear.
I feel for the people that will possibly lose their jobs over this but idiotic senators need to pay for this type of liberal decision making.
