Posted on 02/15/2014 10:15:48 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
Ilion, N.Y. — A union official said Saturday the Remington Arms Co.'s decision to open a manufacturing plant in Alabama does not bode well for Ilion, and he's blaming New York's Safe Act restrictions on assault weapons.
"It can't be good," said Fran Madore, president of United Mine Workers Local 717, which represents 1,180 of the 1,300 Remington employees in Ilion. "How can it be good?"
Madore said plant officials told him they wanted to meet with him on Monday. They did not say what they wanted to talk about, but Madore said he assumes it will be about the company's reported plans to open a 500,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Huntsville, Ala.
AL.com reported Saturday that the Huntsville facility could employ up to 2,000 people. It said details could be revealed on Monday about plans for a Remington facility in a former Chrysler plant near Huntsville International Airport....
"The SAFE Act has been a terrible thing from the beginning," he said. "You'd think New York would be doing everything to keep us. Instead, it passes a law that cripples us."
Remington and other firearms makers can still manufacture assault weapons in New York, but they can't sell them inside the state. New York lawmakers, at the urging of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, imposed the restrictions after a man armed with an assault rifle massacred twenty children and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.
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IBM is still in New York; where? Last time I was in Armonk it look deserted. Don’t know if anything is left in Binghamton.
Folks are leaving New York like water over Niagra Falls. The race between California and New York is on over which will declare bankruptcy first. Sad to remeber a time when the Golden State and the Empire State would compete on the positive side of the scale.
It is hilarious what is not being said.
“In fact, it has spent more than $20 million on new equipment for its factory in Ilion and added 560 jobs at the plant in the past few years.”
This would be before Cuomo decided to be a jerk. So doesn’t really matter. It can be written off as a loss.
“(The union guy) said he’s worried the company will move jobs out of Ilion, the Herkimer County village where the company has been making firearms since 1816.”
Especially because Alabama is a right to work state, which means the end of his union shop.
Huntsville is no hick town. It is a very beautiful and vibrant city, and long ago it became populated with real rocket scientists.
New York i.e. Cuomo is paying for these ads with funds meant for relief from hurricane Sandy.
United Mine workers for Remington?
I believe COLT or Winchester had the United Auto workers represent them.
The $20 m spent on new equipment for the existing plant means little, methinks. Equipment can usually be relocated to new facilities.
Bingo! NYC democrats run the state electorate.
Yep. Play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
So is Alabama a right to work state?
Yeah, I’ve been to Huntsville. Not a bad place. There are other places I’d rather live, but if circumstances forced me there, I wouldn’t be angry or quit etc. There are a whole lot of other places that I would quit my job rather than relocate to...
Baretta 9mm are made in the (DPRM) Democratic Peoples Republic of Maryland.
thanks for the map
New Mexico and Colorado need to wise up
If gun demand slackens, they can close the old unionized NY plant.
Look. Cuomo made it clear a couple of weeks ago. There’s no room for certain people in New York. Obviously the people at Remington recognize that they are some of them.
As sent to the author, R. Moriarty...
“Please learn some gun basics. An AR-15 is NOT an “assault rifle”. An assault rifle has selective fire (one trigger pull - many bang-bangs.) An AR-15 is an example of a semi-automatic rifle (one trigger pull - one bang.) It is quite the difference.
Just speculating but it is possible that naive reporting such as yours is responsible for New York’s SAFE Act and the ensuing actions of Remington. If you (and others) hadn’t muddied the waters throwing around terms like “assault rifle”, not knowing the true meaning and definition of the term, just maybe the public outcry might have allowed Remington (and other, I’ll bet) to NOT consider abandoning New York state.
I, for one, will never again set foot in New York, let alone NYC. You guys get what you deserve.”
No, they have been draconian for quite a long time.
And there are far too many cool guns made in states that don't hate the 2nd to do business with companies that support those states that do.
States are great. They allow people and corporations to move away from socialism, unions, high taxes and other forms of ignorance that aren’t conducive to freedom and wealth creation. If we could only get the federal government to quit trying to screw up everything equally....
Nope!
My gggggrandafther and 7 g uncles n in-laws stood their ground on Bunker Hill until they ran outa ammo.
We stand and fight here.
My family has never run from tyranny.
We stand and fight!
We are 500,000 strong here in the mountains with millions of weapons locked and loaded.
We ain`t no lily livered chickensht./
Don`t shoot til you see the whites of their communist eyes.
Retreat? Hell!
Yeah, but you have to admire the companies that bother to stay and fight:
The Baretta family has just said they will be moving to S.C. soon. They have land and a great deal with the state of S.C.
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