Making the Colt Factory a national park
Except that Colt has nothing to do with it:
As a decade-long push to make a national park out of Samuel Colt’s 19th-century gun factory won approval, elected officials hailed the project as a way to boost one of Hartford’s poorest neighborhoods and honor the revolver as a marvel of manufacturing. Notably absent from the celebrating was Colt’s Manufacturing Co., as it and other gun makers say a strict gun control law has left them feeling unwelcome in the state.
December 26th, 2014 at 8:20 pm
This deal speaks volumes about how out touch Connecticut officials are. All Hartford neighborhoods are in credibly poor thanks to Connecticut’s outrageous regulations and the highest taxes in the country. If Sam Colt were still around, he’d pack up and be out of here in a heartbeat.
December 26th, 2014 at 8:21 pm
It’ll be like a Jewish folk village in Arabia.
December 26th, 2014 at 8:30 pm
A *gun* factory as a National Park? Wouldn’t that make it “illegal” to posses a gun in the *gun* factory?
December 26th, 2014 at 11:39 pm
Bob, national parks allow the same stuff you have a right to in state parks. In Connecticut, that maybe ain’t much. But in free states, national parks are no longer no go zones.
December 27th, 2014 at 1:00 am
The Armory at Springfield in no-gun Mass is a National Historical Site. And Frankford, inside no-gun Philadelphia, would have been too, if Carter/Mondale had kept their word.
December 27th, 2014 at 10:25 am
So do they still have that “decoy” onion dome?
December 27th, 2014 at 12:22 pm
The CT legislators want to make guns a historical oddity. This would fit as a part of their plan.
December 27th, 2014 at 3:06 pm
+1 on Mikee… sigh
December 27th, 2014 at 4:29 pm
Sounds like the perfect time for Colt’s to say adios to the unions and leave the state!
December 28th, 2014 at 10:31 am
So if I understand this correctly, Congress has made a National Park out of a National Historic District that contains all sorts of privately owned property including an apartment/commercial retail combination inhabiting the old factory building. The Church of the Good Shepard appears to be an active Episcopalian church. There are folks living in the homes Colt built for its employees. Are they going to be kicking people out?
Or are the folks living “inside” the National Park going to get screwed like (clostest to me) the few folks who did not sell out to Shennandoah National Park – blocked from using roads in winter because the park closed them to tourist traffic, prevented from conducting home-based busineses that would be permitted if they lived outside the park boundaries, and the like?
The autorization bill creates joint jurisdiction between NPS Poloce and city cops. Have you ever seen the conflicts that take place in DC betyween the sundry cop organizations over in whose territory a crime took place? Makes post-WWI Balkan states look stable!
stay safe.