Feeling unwelcome in blue states, gun companies move to red ones

WAPO ^ | Aug. 29, 2022 | Todd C. Frankel

[PROCON]

At least 20 manufacturers have shifted operations to states with friendlier attitudes toward firearms

Smith & Wesson CEO Mark Smith was fed up. He was running the largest firearms manufacturer in America, based in Springfield, Mass., where it had been making weapons since 1860, and yet state lawmakers were considering a bill to ban the manufacture of AR-15-style rifles for the civilian market. The proposed law would cripple Smith’s company. Sixty percent of Smith & Wesson’s revenue came from AR-15-style guns.

So after years of flirting with the idea, Smith announced last September that Smith & Wesson was pulling up stakes and moving its headquarters from Massachusetts to Tennessee.

Deciding to leave was “extremely difficult,” Smith told investors, but “we feel that we have been left with no other alternative.”

[PROCON]

Good, leaving commie states and bringing good jobs with them to Pro-2nd Amendment states.

[PROCON]

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[kosciusko51]

If they were smart, they’d stop selling to blue states as well...

[eyeamok]

Now stop selling entirely to Demonrat Blue States, get this party started.

[kosciusko51]

😁

[fwdude]

Blue states = slave states

[Little Ray]

Welcome home, guys!

[caww]

Yep....moving to states where the constitution is followed - not ignored!

[Navy Patriot]

Feeling unwelcome in blue states, gun companies move to red ones

Finally.

[fwdude]

As long as they leave their even mildly liberal politics behind.

I've found that some of the most staunch "conservatives" in deep blue states are still quite liberal by red-state standards.

[SmokingJoe]

Why would they do that?
Manufacture in red states, sell in red and blue states. Thats the ticket.

[aquila48]

Of course leftists never, ever give up.

I can predict what they’re going to do next. They’ll try to push their agenda through the federal government.

It’s why they love a big centralized government - much easier to take control of a single entity than 50 different ones.

[kosciusko51]

You can’t be sued in a state where you don’t sell...

Perhaps a compromise: don’t sell to blue state agencies.

[SmokingJoe]

You can be sued anywhere by far left Dems and their lawyers, so make as much money as you can to fight back with.

[Jim W N]

Anybody got a list of red states these days?

[Bon of Babble]

Good.

Let the tax revenue and jobs go to a more deserving area.

[JBW1949]

S&W is not only moving to red state Tennessee, they are moving to EAST Tennessee, which is the reddest part of the state...

[Lurkinanloomin]

You would have to cross off all of them that have Bush League Republican Senators, which is most of them.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I’ve found that the “reddest” states elect the worst Assistant Democrats.

[Wallace T.]

At least Wyoming, the most Republican state in the Union, rid itself of Liz Cheney.