Posted on 02/24/2013 2:05:59 PM PST by Perdogg
On the production floor of Beretta USA sits a hulking new barrel-making machine ready to churn out the next object of obsession in America’s love-hate relationship with guns: a civilian version of a machine gun designed for special operations forces and popularized in the video game Call of Duty.
Beretta, the nearly 500-year-old family-owned company that made one of James Bond’s firearms, has already invested more than $1 million in the machine and has planned to expand its plant further in Prince George’s County to ramp up production.
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Come to Texas!!
Better yet, to Virginia
One word. Texas
How about Indiana.
If I was Beretta, I’d relocate to Virginia as close to the Maryland border as possible.
Segregation is coming.
+1 Centrally located, low cost of living, and gun friendly.
1-800-929-2901
I would call and voice my support, but what do I say?
I’m unemployed, I would consider buying a berreta if you leave MD??? Yeah right.
+1 Centrally located, low cost of living, and gun friendly.
And within an easy smuggling distance to Chicago.
Liberalism triumphs over economics and jobs every time. I live in Tallahassee. Elbit, a defense company, occupied a large building in USF/FAMU industrial park near the national magnet lab. At an open meeting of the university’s governing board, one of the people on the committee said, “We don’t want some horrible defense company in our academic park. Let’s offer them the pre-bubble collapse price for their building and be done with them.” Elbit had about 350 employees and roughly $80 million per year in contracts. Their footprint on the local tax picture and job scene was noticeable. Elbit had other plants in the US only partially utilized. They grabbed the money and left smoking skid marks. That building is still empty nearly 3 years later. It annoys me as a taxpayer that university’s board spent our tax dollars for such a cavalier, liberalism like protesting the defense business. (Incidentally, Elbit hired engineers from both university programs and provided summer internships that paid extremely well.
None of the lower level employees, many of whom came off welfare, were offered a move package. Only the poorer members of society were hurt by this bizarre, elitist move.
They should negotiate with NM...
The state is desperate for any factory production company. They could probably get huge tax breaks, free rent etc.
And such a deal could help reverse the ugly direction that our legislature has taken the last few weeks, vis a vis anti-gun bills.
Who knew that the National Magnet Lab moved?
Isn’t NM, like CO, lost?
“It annoys me as a taxpayer that university’s board spent our tax dollars for such a cavalier, liberalism like protesting the defense business.”
Libtards have no problem spending other people’s money for something the can “feel” good about. Never mind that it is totally illogical and causes more harm than good.
Come to Sierra Vista/Fort Huachuca Arizona or Phoenix Arizona.
Let me get this straight: Gov. O’Malley says these guns are evil and should be stopped...but he is perfectly fine with profiting from them?
That’s what this statement sounds like:
“We think getting assault weapons off the streets and keeping this company can both be accomplished,” said Raquel Guillory, O’Malley’s spokeswoman.
BTW, I just fired my relatively new 92fs again yesterday. Not for hunting, not for self defense...just because I like to, and its my right (so far).
Indeed! But it's even better -- the state's Constitution (a) preempts any law "abridging the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense", (b)prohibits a county or municipality from regulating "in any way" even a single incident of the right to keep and bear arms [with case-law extending to sales there's a good chance it would be the same w/ manufacture], and (c) has GREAT FOOD.
And such a deal could help reverse the ugly direction that our legislature has taken the last few weeks, vis a vis anti-gun bills.
Gr, I've posted on the NM forum how that is likely treason and should be cause for arresting the legislature (well those members).
Who knew the national magnetic lab moved?
The national high magnetic lab. Maybe we have two of them? This one is in Tallahassee on Paul Dirac Drive. It’s near to USF’s Engineering building.
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