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Beretta’s future in Maryland tied to state’s gun-control debate (may leave the People's Republic)
Washington Post ^

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: banglist; beretta; guncontrol; maryland; secondamendment
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To: Perdogg

I know a lot of ‘Famiglias Italianas’ at my son’s school whose husbands work at Beretta in Accokeek. The mothers can’t speak that much English, and I’ve helped them ‘maneuver’ the system for years. None of them are pleased with the State and their stand on gun-control...


41 posted on 02/24/2013 3:47:36 PM PST by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: Gen.Blather
"They secured the backing of key Florida officials and submitted their proposal to the National Science Foundation in 1989. In so doing, the team challenged the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, home to the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory, founded a quarter of a century earlier.

Their bold plan articulated a novel vision for a magnet laboratory that would:

Feature a model federal-state partnership Serve magnet-related research in nearly all areas of science Promote interdisciplinary research Support science and technology education Work in partnership with industry to enhance the competitive position of the United States in magnet-related research and development

The proposal proved persuasive. Following a stringent peer-review competition, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory was awarded to FSU in August 1990. With its first major hurdle cleared, the team moved quickly to the next: turning their promises into bricks, mortar and magnets."

There you go.

42 posted on 02/24/2013 3:54:06 PM PST by Paladin2
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Freepers, your Contributions make every difference!
Please keep ‘em coming! Thank you all very much!


Proposed Bill Would Force Gun Owners in NY to Buy At Least $1 MILLION in Liability Insurance or Forfeit ‘Privilege’ to Own a Firearm
43 posted on 02/24/2013 4:05:37 PM PST by RedMDer (Support Free Republic)
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To: liege

I think you’ll enjoy your Beretta.

There is nothing very practical about it...too big to carry concealed easily, too small to put down a drug crazed grizzly bear, etc...but I just plain like it. I especially like the ‘feel’.

I had used this pistol in the Army and liked it; but, I was somewhat ignorant of the Beretta company. Literature in the box stated the company was 500 years old! With a ‘Beretta’ still at the helm. Truly amazing.


44 posted on 02/24/2013 4:08:52 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Paladin2

Hello Rick Perry!

Before you try to lure Californians to Texas, look and see what they did to Colorado.

Yall can move to a free state, just leave your attitude and opinions where you came from.


45 posted on 02/24/2013 4:18:02 PM PST by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: liege

I just purchased a 92FS two weeks ago, I love it! It is the only modern pistol I have found that fits my meat hooks properly. I was also lucky enough to find about a dozen mil-surp 15 rounders and a couple of Mec-Gar 18 rounders at an obscure gun shop.


46 posted on 02/24/2013 4:34:20 PM PST by mulnir
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To: Perdogg

Beretta should pull out of Maryland and create some unemployment in the state where residents hate them so unfairly. They should stop all the free training and repairs they give the state. The governor of Maryland will stomp all over Beretta in his attempt to be president of the US. If progressives in Maryland continue to have their way, one or two more American industries like Beretta will “go foreign” where they are welcome to add to the local economy overseas.


47 posted on 02/24/2013 4:36:51 PM PST by Rapscallion (The people sense what Obama has in store for America.)
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To: RedMDer

F’n Lawyer Compensation Legislation.


48 posted on 02/24/2013 4:43:02 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: hadaclueonce

Texas will go purple soon, and blue within ten years.

To many Mexicans. What is worse is that there are a lot of Californians doing what they do best. Destroying where they live.

Start planning your exit strategy.


49 posted on 02/24/2013 4:45:05 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: mulnir
Oh I wish I could get 15 and 18's here on the left coast. But I guess I only need 10 rounds to kill a deer, right?

I did get the Hogue grips instead.

50 posted on 02/24/2013 4:49:59 PM PST by bubbacluck
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To: GeronL

Virginia is a lot close.

WEST Virginia is a lot closer.


51 posted on 02/24/2013 4:52:59 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: lacrew

Ask Gov. O’Malley if his bodyguards carry water pistols.

I guess that the guvnr’s life is considered of much greater value than those of law-abiding American citizens’.

The gall that these elected a-holes have!


52 posted on 02/24/2013 5:20:14 PM PST by 353FMG ( I refuse to specify whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: dfwgator

Har!


53 posted on 02/24/2013 6:45:24 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Perdogg; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Perdogg.
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.

54 posted on 02/24/2013 6:48:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: redgolum

As a Texan, I would rather have second generation Mexicans than first generation folks from California.

Hispanics are hard working folks who are here to work.


55 posted on 02/24/2013 7:22:24 PM PST by hadaclueonce (you are paying 12% more for fuel because of Ethanol. Smile big Corn Lobby,)
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To: hadaclueonce

OUCH!

Trust me, there are plenty of good conservative in Calif. just not enough.


56 posted on 02/24/2013 8:07:57 PM PST by super7man
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To: super7man

conservative = conservatives

Its amazing the spelling errors you can catch after you’ve
hit the post buttton.


57 posted on 02/24/2013 8:09:39 PM PST by super7man
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To: lacrew

There’s an Italian bronze foundry/bell maker that’s twice as old as Beretta and still run by the original family.


58 posted on 02/24/2013 8:23:29 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Perdogg

Along with Benelli...Adios...


59 posted on 02/24/2013 9:24:22 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Perdogg

SC is making a strong push for all of them. It may happen.


60 posted on 02/24/2013 9:26:59 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?)
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