Gun Control bills threaten green, environmentally friendly non-gun businesses

The current round of gun control bills working their way through the Colorado legislature include a ban on ammunition magazines with a capacity greater than fifteen rounds. Magpul is a Colorado based company that makes top quality magazines for the AR-15/M4/M16 series of civilian and military rifles. Magpul has already said that the company will leave Colorado and set up in a gun-friendly state if the magazine ban becomes law.

Today, I was talking to the owner of a local recycling business. They accept computer hardware among other recyclables and disassemble the items into their base components: plastic, steel, aluminum, etc. and then sell the raw materials. Their biggest supplier of donated plastic scrap is Magpul. The recycling guy told me that if Magpul leaves Colorado, he will not have enough raw material to keep his business running, and will be forced to close down. I counted six employees while I was there.

Every committee vote so far in the Colorado legislature has been passed along party lines--Democrats voting for, Republicans voting against. Do you think any of those Democrats realize--or even care--that their attacks on the lawful use of firearms by law-abiding citizens also costs Green jobs in an already weakened economy?