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I wanted first to thank Michael Blane for standing up for what is right, and secondly for taking the necessary steps to help spread the word in his industry and helping to open the eyes of others who would have driven the economy of Colorado’s outdoors revenue base up.
I personally believe we should Boycott all Hunting Trips to Colorado until these laws are repealed and these bums are thrown out of the state.
our attorneys referred to them as “flypaper laws”
Unfortunately as it was with the ESOS, there are those who are hurt in such actions who have no fault in the system except maybe not doing enough to be sure their state went down this dark and dirty road they are on now.
We will be watching this situation very closely ! And reporting back with any more news, but I am asking you to spread the word, forward this post to everyone you know, and post it in every outdoors forum you can think of, please think twice of booking trips, not just hunting, but any trips to Colorado in the future.
I would in fact encourage all of your to contact Mr. King and let him know how much money he would have gotten from trips you would have planned to Colorado in the future… His information is:
STEVE KING
State Senator – District 7
Office Location: 200 East Colfax
Denver, CO 80203
Capitol Phone: 303-866-3077
E-Mail: [email protected]
Thanks again Mr. Bane… The Entire letter he sent to Mr. King is posted below !
If we don’t make this stand and do it NOW, we will never have the chance to get these rights back… EVER !
Please do your part now, and let everyone know… Email this, post it, forward and share this to everyone you can !!!
Dear Senator King;
I met you yesterday after the so called “public hearings” on the antigun bills; as I mentioned, I am an Executive Producer for OUTDOOR CHANNEL. I currently have four series in production, included 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 antigun bills become law, we will be moving all of our production OUT of Colorado.
We have already cancelled 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 witha 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 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 with 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
I personally believe we should Boycott all Hunting Trips to Colorado until these laws are repealed and these bums are thrown out of the state.
our attorneys referred to them as “flypaper laws”
Unfortunately as it was with the ESOS, there are those who are hurt in such actions who have no fault in the system except maybe not doing enough to be sure their state went down this dark and dirty road they are on now.
We will be watching this situation very closely ! And reporting back with any more news, but I am asking you to spread the word, forward this post to everyone you know, and post it in every outdoors forum you can think of, please think twice of booking trips, not just hunting, but any trips to Colorado in the future.
I would in fact encourage all of your to contact Mr. King and let him know how much money he would have gotten from trips you would have planned to Colorado in the future… His information is:
STEVE KING
State Senator – District 7
Office Location: 200 East Colfax
Denver, CO 80203
Capitol Phone: 303-866-3077
E-Mail: [email protected]
Thanks again Mr. Bane… The Entire letter he sent to Mr. King is posted below !
If we don’t make this stand and do it NOW, we will never have the chance to get these rights back… EVER !
Please do your part now, and let everyone know… Email this, post it, forward and share this to everyone you can !!!
Dear Senator King;
I met you yesterday after the so called “public hearings” on the antigun bills; as I mentioned, I am an Executive Producer for OUTDOOR CHANNEL. I currently have four series in production, included 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 antigun bills become law, we will be moving all of our production OUT of Colorado.
We have already cancelled 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 witha 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 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 with 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
