I was back in Connecticut last month. Drove along I91 on my way to/from Bradley International. The former Colt manufacturing plant along the interstate, the one with the blue Arabic style dome on top, was shuttered and boarded up.
When in New Haven, I drove past the Winchester-Western facility where I worked during the late 1960s. Most of the buildings have been torn down. The main office building where I used to have an office now has been converted to loft condominiums.
Connecticut, which used to be THE gun manufacturing state in the US has lost almost all of that industry. Thousands of jobs are gone, many now having migrated to the South.
For Connecticut, the gun industry is only the tip of the iceberg. It was shocking to see how many other industries have left the state for greener pastures.
Marlin Firearms and Mossberg were right down the street. (Now they are gone) As kids, the friends and I would go through their dumpsters and collect the wood frames that didn't pass muster. I had a lot of "home made guns" when I was a kid.
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Connecticut, which used to be THE gun manufacturing state in the US has lost almost all of that industry. Thousands of jobs are gone, many now having migrated to the South.
Is Ruger still there? Most everything I see of theirs now says "Prescott, AZ" on it.