OUTDOOR CHANNEL PULLS PRODUCTION FROM COLORADO DUE TO CO SENATE BETRAYING 2ND RIGHTS!

[TexasGranny]

Received the following from the Chairman of our County Republican Party. If true, Colorado may regret their recent decisions.

 

 

OUTDOOR CHANNEL PULLS PRODUCTION FROM COLORADO DUE TO CO SENATE BETRAYING 2ND RIGHTS!
From: Michael Bane
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM
Subject: OUTDOOR CHANNEL Pulls Productions from Colorado
To: Steve King

Dear Senator King;

I met you yesterday after the so-called "public hearings" on the anti-gun bills; as I mentioned, I am an Executive Producer for OUTDOOR CHANNEL. I currently have four series in production, including 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 anti-gun bills become law, we will be moving all of our production OUT of Colorado. We have already canceled 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 cities 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 within 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 mbane@outdoorchannel.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Shabibilicious]

Attempted blackmail is one of the best parts of the American experience......ask any NRA'r or yellow member of congress.  As always, just my opinion.  Thanks for the article TG.    

 

GO RV, then BV

[Zebra0101]

Good for them!!  I hope others follow suit and teach the marxist what capitalism is all about...

[jonjon]

Abandoning a sinking ship is an act of self preservation.  

[Cherysh]

This will affect my friends business who was to be a feature on one of these programs for his AVT Rental business in Estes Park....WAY TO GO GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATION...good news is, the laws are being appealed with the courts, and hopefully they will be put in the ballots in November. As long as they are being appealed, they will not become law on the scheduled July dates. (FUNNY...3 days before Independence day was the law affective dates...How Ironic huh!?!?!) Then its our job here in Colorado to make sure they are not passed if they make it to the ballot in November. KEEP FIGHTING CITIZENS!!

[Shabibilicious]

Abandoning a sinking ship is an act of self preservation.  

 

That is true.....and the rats are usually the first to jump.  

 

GO RV, then BV

[jonjon]

That is true.....and the rats are usually the first to jump.  

 

GO RV, then BV

Only the strong survive.

[Shabibilicious]

Only the strong survive.

 

Actually muscle sinks.......fat floats.    

 

GO RV, then BV

[jonjon]

Actually muscle sinks.......fat floats.    

 

GO RV, then BV

 

History has unveiled the disappointment of the socialist experiment. 

[sxsess]

Communism, Marxism, Socialism will never work here because you can only spend other peoples money for so long...And well is bone dry. Obummers dreams are slowly unraveling. With the failures of the last few days, I'm waiting for the spineless crybaby so-called president to start throwing temper tantrums. Hahaha, don't you just love to see them demtards defeated. More to come shortly!!LOL 

[magawatt]

I don't suppose they would settle for just paintballing those critters. Probably not, that would take real stalking skill.

[Jmcc]

Attempted blackmail is one of the best parts of the American experience......ask any NRA'r or yellow member of congress.  As always, just my opinion.  Thanks for the article TG.    

 

GO RV, then BV

Just my opinion, but I wouldn't spend money in a whorehouse if I didn't think I was wanted. Not blackmail, just customer satisfaction.

[Sentinel7]

Just another liberal state being destroyed by liberal polices 

 

Blue States blue city's in the process of self destruction 

 

 

No Surrender No Retreat and No Compromise

[DinarMillionaire]

I use to vacation in Colorado at least once, sometimes twice every year, for the past thirteen years. I no longer will be vacationing in Colorado. Utah, for one, is now my vacation destination. Was there last year and loved it.

[Sentinel7]

Attempted blackmail is one of the best parts of the American experience......ask any NRA'r or yellow member of congress.  As always, just my opinion.  Thanks for the article TG.    

 

GO RV, then BV

I take it you do not remember chick-fil-a

 

By the way Congress voted the way the bulk of the American people wanted otherwise we would have expanded back ground checks

Not only that they saw that these expanded checks could not work without universal gun registration.

 

If the Liberals keep coming after the guns then they will be the ones that start the civil war

 

The American are not stupid enough to be disarmed

 

This is not my opinion this is a fact of life 

 

 

No Surrender No Retreat and No Compromise 

[sxsess]

I use to vacation in Colorado at least once, sometimes twice every year, for the past thirteen years. I no longer will be vacationing in Colorado. Utah, for one, is now my vacation destination. Was there last year and loved it.

Utah is still run by leaders with a spine & a brain. Colorado is hopeless...Ate up with liberalism. Really sad

I take it you do not remember chick-fil-a

 

By the way Congress voted the way the bulk of the American people wanted otherwise we would have expanded back ground checks

Not only that they saw that these expanded checks could not work without universal gun registration.

 

If the Liberals keep coming after the guns then they will be the ones that start the civil war

 

The American are not stupid enough to be disarmed

 

This is not my opinion this is a fact of life 

 

 

No Surrender No Retreat and No Compromise

That's right Sentinel!! To disarm us is to kill us! EEEERRRRAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY

[10 YEARS LATER]

History has unveiled the disappointment of the socialist experiment. 

    :bravo:    

[army972]

WE canceled our trip there. they were not going to back our deposit until I told them about why we canceled.

[Frogee]

Attempted blackmail is one of the best parts of the American experience......ask any NRA'r or yellow member of congress.  As always, just my opinion.  Thanks for the article TG.    

 

GO RV, then BV

This is one of the most famous and well used tactic of the left. The black clergy have been using this for years. Jessie Jackson is the king of this kind of intimidation. What's the matter , don't like it when it is used legitimately, by real concerned citizens, not paid protesters.