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I spent five weeks in Charleston late last summer thanks to the Air National Guard, and I often fantasize about moving down there. Connecticut's latest round of gun control laws only serve to deepen that wish. However, I have obligations here so moving is not an option right now.

I would love to see Colt pick up and move too, just to watch the governor squirm, but I'd rather those jobs stay here.
 
Devonai said:
I spent five weeks in Charleston late last summer thanks to the Air National Guard, and I often fantasize about moving down there. Connecticut's latest round of gun control laws only serve to deepen that wish. However, I have obligations here so moving is not an option right now.

I would love to see Colt pick up and move too, just to watch the governor squirm, but I'd rather those jobs stay here.
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Yes, Charleston is nice - I lived my teenage years there and have a son living there now.

It's a shame that any state would face the possibility of losing industry because of misguided decisions made by politicians. However, that is not the world we live in. So, if they are going to move then I welcome them to my state.
 
I think South Carolina is about the only Southern state I haven't visited, but it's been on my wish list for some time.

Good news for South Carolina! I, too, would love to see Colt and others follow their lead. Maybe this will at least make CT legislators take a second thought the next time they try something stupid. Maybe...
 
Good for them. You can't afford to live here anyway. About 80% of the people I know move to North Carolina when they retire. Wish I could. I'm stuck here with my ten round magazines and all my hi-caps that I have to register if and when they figure out how to register them. They think they may have it figured out by August. I know the schools will be a lot safer once I've registered my magazines.
 
About 80% of the people I know move to North Carolina when they retire.
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Please don't. That is why NC is now considered a "purple" state. Once again, people move to a state and then try to make it into the place that they left.
 
Please don't. That is why NC is now considered a "purple" state. Once again, people move to a state and then try to make it into the place that they left.
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There's no proof that the people moving to NC are the ones changing it. It seems more likely that the people moving to a place are doing it because they like it, and want it to stay the way it is.
Maybe it's an internal demographic change, maybe it's the school system, different generations and different thinking, etc... There's a lot of factors that change political climate.
 
There's no proof that the people moving to NC are the ones changing it. It seems more likely that the people moving to a place are doing it because they like it, and want it to stay the way it is.
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Well...it's happened to Austin, to Boulder CO, to New Mexico, to parts of Nevada, starting to happen to Phoenix, etc. Transplanted Californians always "liberal up" their new home town, so to speak. I see no reason why that wouldn't be true of transplanted New Englanders.
 
It seems more likely that the people moving to a place are doing it because they like it, and want it to stay the way it is.
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Having seen a lot of transplants from up north come down here, they like our weather and beaches just fine and want those to stay the way they are, but they view the locals as igorant hicks just standing in their way.

Anyways, its good to see another firearms company down here in the state. I may be wrong but the only major outfits I was previously aware of was FN-USA, though Palmetto State Armory has also been setting itself up as a major retail force lately too.
 
Stargazer65 said:
There's no proof that the people moving to NC are the ones changing it. It seems more likely that the people moving to a place are doing it because they like it, and want it to stay the way it is.
Maybe it's an internal demographic change, maybe it's the school system, different generations and different thinking, etc... There's a lot of factors that change political climate.
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Well...it's happened to Austin, to Boulder CO, to New Mexico, to parts of Nevada, starting to happen to Phoenix, etc. Transplanted Californians always "liberal up" their new home town, so to speak. I see no reason why that wouldn't be true of transplanted New Englanders.
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Stargazer - here's more proof to that.

Santa Fe City Council to consider ammo ban
"The Santa Fe City Council is scheduled to weigh a proposal next week that would impose strict regulations on the number of bullets in gun magazines allowed in the city limits."
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_3dca3073-7868-5190-85c4-e6f39a687c41.html

This is despite wording in the NM laws that supposedly prohibits any town or municipality from enacting any greater restrictions than the state.

And that is on top of the recent problems people in Colorado have had with their legislaters and governor. Some posts elsewhere feel the problems, in part, are from "tax refugees" from CA who then try to get the same level of "services" they left behind.
 
OK, but these are just examples of events happening in several areas and no cause is attributed.
I have six relatives who moved from CT to GA. They are extremely pro gun and conservative, and mostly moved because of political climate as well as cost of living. Their moving made GA more red.

As "proof";) of that you can see the government in GA is reducing gun restrictions:

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/21013260/georgias-proposed-gun-laws

So you may just as well assume that escapees from NE to the south make the south more conservative and pro-gun.
 
Following the NC comments- I own property in NC we bought to someday retire to. I'm now having seconds thoughts as the state is rapidly turning blue.
In the NC mountains, where my land is, due to the outsider influx, there are more Florida plated cars running around than NC plated cars!
 
I'm glad they left the state personally...I hope all the other manufacturers find a way to do the same, at least overtime.

Heck, I'M leaving the state over this...already talked to my boss about a transfer to Vermont!
 
I wish they'd put the damned confederate battle flag back on top of the Capitol building and maybe the NAACP and the Yankees would continue to boycott S.C. and concentrate on N.C and Ga.
 
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