Remington moving production of 2 gun lines from NY to AL

[Aloha_Shooter]

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/remington-to-move-production-of-two-gun-lines-from-new-york-to-alabama-20140516

Nearly 200 years after Eliphalet Remington II forged his first rifle in Ilion, residents of the small central New York village are getting the bad news they have feared for more than a year: Remington Arms is moving production of two of its gun lines to Alabama.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/05/remington_union_official_80_to_be_laid_off_in_ny_w ith_no_guarantee_of_jobs_in_a.html

Eighty Remington workers will be laid off in the coming months with no guarantees of future jobs as New York's oldest gun maker shifts two assembly lines from Ilion to Alabama, a union official said this evening.
"You're not guaranteed a job," said Fran Madore, president of United Mine Workers Local 717. "You have to fill out an application. There's no incentive to go."

Who wants to bet Obama's NLRB tries to do the same thing to Remington they've done with Boeing?

[Brian]

It's not just "Remington" proper. Rumors are still flying, but Bushmaster, AAC, TAPCO, Para, DPMS, LAR are all getting shut down and moved.
Rumor is the employees are being offered a chance to re-apply if they want to move to Alabama. :S

Let's just hope this isn't another Marlin. Mers at AAC was trying to put a good spin on it, but you know this is going to introduce some significant problems for a while.

[Gman]

The lines continue to be re-drawn and sides chosen.

[MarkCO]

Remington just started construction on the new ammo plant in Arkansas. Only one of my several contacts at Remington are still in NY.

Besides what Brian posted, Freedom also has Marlin, Dakota Arms, Parker, LC Smith, and Barnes Bullets. But with about a million square feet under roof in NY, it will take some time to transfer all of the lines there. They have been selling equipment on the auction sites quite a bit more than normal too.

[Jamnanc]

It's all good, they can just raise taxes to pay more unemployment.

[ben4372]

I thought AAC was already in the south, maybe Georgia? I think this is an excuse for The Freedom Group. They are likely trimming the company to the bone, and this is a handy excuse. This is why I don't really care for anything they've sold in the last few years. They are just gonna squeeze these once great gun companies until they are nothing. Thinks the movie Wallstreet.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I thought AAC was already in the south, maybe Georgia? I think this is an excuse for The Freedom Group. They are likely trimming the company to the bone, and this is a handy excuse. This is why I don't really care for anything they've sold in the last few years. They are just gonna squeeze these once great gun companies until they are nothing. Thinks the movie Wallstreet.

Wow, they just can't win, can they? For the past year or two, people have been bitching that the big companies aren't showing states like NY or CT the error of their ways by leaving the state. One of the biggest is in the process of doing just that and you spew more anti-capitalist crap right out of Soros or Reid about the "evil" Freedom Group. Why don't you just come out and call them "vulture capitalists" like Gingrich and Obama? "Wall Street" was a crock of fecal matter like most of Oliver Stone's agitprop.

[Brian]

Yes, it's not just NY.

Some of the companies being relocated are:
Bushmaster/Remington, Ilion, NY
Advanced Armament Corp, Lawrenceville, Georgia;
Montana Rifleman, Kalispell, Montana;
TAPCO, Kennesaw, Georgia;
LAR Manufacturing, West Jordan, Utah; 

Para-Ordnance, Pineville, North Carolina; and
DPMS, St. Cloud, Minnesota

Clearly, some of this is political, and some of it is just "big company" consolidation stuff.