12 Texas Congressmen Invite Gun Manufacturers to Relocate to Texas

by: JimCardle
2013-04-24
Source: texasinsider
01/08/2020

Cong. Barton leads Congressional Delegation letter Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. We encourage you to relocate to Texas where we can provide a business-friendly environment that encourages innovation and understands the right to bear arms. We look forward to calling yall Texans!" ends the friendly invitation letter by Cong. Joe Barton (R-Ennis-Arlington) who was joined by 11 members of the Texas Congressional Delegation in a letter Tuesday to three gun manufacturers urging them to consider relocating their firearms manufacturing facilities to Texas. The members drafted the letter after a Connecticut-based rifle manufacturer PTR-Precision Technologies Inc. announced its intentions to move 40 jobs out of the state due to unintended consequences" of Connecticuts newly-passed gun control legislation. The letter promotes Texas support of the Second Amendment and the Lone Star States business friendly environment.

In Texas we are committed to protecting our right under the constitution to own and use guns … The business-friendly environment in Texas prompted CEO Magazine to name Texas the best state in the nation for doing business eight years in a row. Texas lawmakers have paved the way for business through reasonable regulations low taxes a skilled workforce cutting-edge infrastructure and the advantage of being a right to work state" the letter states.