COMMERCE WARS

Talk about currency and trade wars has ramped up since Japan kicked off it new QE program,

Some of this in time may prove noteworthy.

But there's another, more subtle war going on closer to home. In the past few weeks three states, Mississippi, Maine and Texas orchestrated invitations to gun manufacturers who ply their trade in those blue, PC-righteous, eastern seaboard states.

Two other states, Arkansas and Florida, recently extended an offer to other gun manufacturers in Connecticut.

The message is loud and clear: "C-mon down!"  Texas Governor Rick Perry is the latest to roll out the welcome mat. Smith and Wesson is in Connecticut, the so-called Constitution State, the same state that pilloried one of its longstanding, local manufacturers a few years ago for wanting to move to avoid the state's oppressive tax rates.

Politician there, including the former attorney general, a wealthy guy who now represents Connecticut as a member of the good old boys club of the US senate, resorted to severe name calling, accusing the company of being a traitor, un-American because the firm proposed a move to Bermuda..

How un-American is it to move to another state? Just maybe we're going to find out.

If gun store owners and every gun-purchasing fan of S&W sent e-mails and made pubic announcements that they will no longer buy S&W products until they leave Connecticut, gun owners and the rest of us might regain some of the power these despots have usurped over the years.

To clear the record we don't belongs to the NRA and never have.  This isn't about the NRA. It's about wealthy, elitists, eastern seaboard bullies like Mayor Bloomberg forcing their beliefs and so-called values on the rest of us. It's not about race, creed or religion. It's about power. Raw, ugly power.

The longer you wait to make a stand the less power you'll have when that day comes to a venue near you.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-governor-connecticut-gun-maker-come-down-213053466.html