Remington Gun Factory in New York to Close Year After Sandy Hook Settlement
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General Zod
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A case that should never have been allowed to go forward, much less result in any settlement.
The Roundhill Group lawyers did this. So very sad and the then Governor Cuomo same guy who sent Covid infected people to nursing homes signed legislations making Firearms manufacturers liable for deaths from their products.
An attempt to kill the Unions and plus Cuomo liability law did not help either.
General Zod
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Yeah, a law that somehow nullifies federal law. Neat trick.
A law intended for lawyers to fight it out and find loopholes.
During those miserable years I worked in Central NY, quite a few of the old machinists from Remington were members of the gun club with me. (They didn't have public ranges, so you had to join a club. The one I joined had a big piece of property and some really great members.) Some of them made their own muzzleloaders - all from scratch like they did 200 years ago. It was amazing how accurate they were.
I went to the factory museum once. Had some really cool guns there. George Custer was a loyal customer (not a ringing endorsement after the massacre.)
The state of NY is run by the people who occupy the Hudson River Valley, which is to say Albany and the greater New York City area. They suck in all the rest of the state's tax money to cover their leftist policies. At the same time, they do everything in their power to discourage and destroy all manufacturing business in the state.
I went to the factory museum once. Had some really cool guns there. George Custer was a loyal customer (not a ringing endorsement after the massacre.)
The state of NY is run by the people who occupy the Hudson River Valley, which is to say Albany and the greater New York City area. They suck in all the rest of the state's tax money to cover their leftist policies. At the same time, they do everything in their power to discourage and destroy all manufacturing business in the state.
Remington leaves the upstate New York village where it made guns for 200 years after a PE takeover and 2 bankruptcies
Last October, Smith & Wesson opened its new Tennessee headquarters after being based in Springfield, Massachusetts, since 1852.
I'm a day late and a dollar short sorry about that.Remington leaves the upstate New York village where it made guns for 200 years after a PE takeover and 2 bankruptcies
Last October, Smith & Wesson opened its new Tennessee headquarters after being based in Springfield, Massachusetts, since 1852.fortune.com
While I'm about as anti-union as it gets, it wasn't the union alone that screwed that place. Remington made a lot of very bad business decisions and the state of NY is rapidly driving every industry out of the state. I worked there for a few miserable years and I was doing consulting for a number of companies. I remember a small plant that a guy started so that his sons would have a business to inherit. He had tears in his eyes when discussing how the state was crushing his business. He said he would have been better off to give his sons a couple of McDonald's franchises. Huge plants that once covered many acres are now down to a single building.
I worked extensively with the Remington plant in Ilion. Sure, NY state is anti-business, but that doesn’t excuse the line in the sand the local Union drew when Remmy was once again on its last leg. It was reminiscent of a PEG squeezing every last drop of blood out of a dying company. They squoze themselves right onto the unemployment line.
Shh don't give that scumbag any ideas
It was a massive structure. Five or six stories tall with two basements in places and sat literally on one full city block. The most inefficient manufacturing processes I've ever witnessed. They hammer forged their barrels though. Had two hammer forges. One was down when I was there and the Ops VP (close friend so nobody MF the guy please) advised they were going to get it running again. Never happened. Both were over 100 years old. My bud couldn't lean the place up because the machinery was so old if you moved it, it'd never be right again. It was a 50 year ramp-down for sure. First barrel forged there in 1816. What a shame. It's closing its doors for good next month.
