[Chode]

$80Million , the new thirty pieces of silver...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

U.S. Representative Richard Hanna today announced that Remington Arms has been awarded a nearly $80 million contract to produce more than 5,000 sniper rifles for the U.S. military.

That's $16,000 per rifle.

Remington's version of the $5,000 hammer.

[glock rocks]

Remington, remember Smith & Wesson?

[aomagrat]

The only Remington firearm I own was made by the typewriter company.

[Texas Fossil]

The contract will be awarded over the course of 10 years.

80 million over 10 years, calculates to 8 million per year. Is that a lot of business for the company. Sounds like BS to me.

[demshateGod]

I’ll remember.

[sickoflibs]

Gun safety ping!

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20130318.aspx

[centurion316]

People often wonder why business supports Democrats. The answer is quite simple: Democrats are for sale and everyone knows it. They will give you what you pay for and they will punish your competition. They are not bound by any moral scruples or political philosophy, so everyone is welcome as long as you bring lots of money.

Republicans do this too, but they aren’t really serious about it, aren’t well organized to do it on a large scale, and sometimes take a stand on principle. They can’t be relied upon to practice corruption at a professional level.

[bmwcyle]

Boycott

[FreeInWV]

I remember when they listed Lon Horiuchi’s name as a satisfied customer of their H-S precision sniper rifles. I wrote their president a very polite but venomous email and actually got a response. My suggestion of a boycott rattled him. He changed his stance and pulled all the advertising.

Perhaps someone here can use this: tommy.millner@remington.com

Be polite and remember that he is a gunmaker and generally on our side. He might still be planning on moving outta New York. Is the contract tied to producing it in NY?

[FunkyZero]

That’s a shame, a Custom 40x in 25-06 was on my list. I’m not sure what I’ll replace it with, few rifles even compare.

[Texas Fossil]

The announcement “did not” say Remington is not moving any of it’s production from NY. It said they were awarded a 80 million contract over 10 years and that they were spending 20 million on the plant. This is the new “modular” rifle for the U.S. military. That contract translates into 500 guns per year (total of 5,000 weapons).

I think it is early to assume some of the other production will not be moved. They do produce weapons in other places and in foreign countries. Nothing new there.

We shall see.

[2ndDivisionVet]

What in the world does New York need with $80 million dollars worth of sniper rifles? That seems to be the real question.

[EDINVA]

Color me Rip Van Winkle, but when did the U.S. military become “law enforcement in states that are hostile to the Second Amendment, states like New York?”

[stickywillie]

will those rifles be for domestic use?

[DJ Taylor]

Let me see if I have this straight.

Our country is at war and an American firearms company (Remington) is selling firearms to our military to be used in this war and there are those on this website who are offended by this.

Have I stumbled across a DU website?

I’m out of here.

[Travis McGee]

Maybe they'll get a contract for the new "Good Citizen" line of firearms, with RFID chip trigger activation.

[Christie at the beach]

->>That's $16,000 per rifle. The government is putting a squeeze on the taxpayer. We have to pay for part of that waste. The company that owns Remington suddenly changes their mind to move after the government and state officials meet with them and they are awarded a contract to stay. Looks like crony capitalism, looks bad. Some on the web blog are saying that Soros owns part of this lead company making them to think this was planned for other motives. It is crazy though, a contract for rifles $16,000 each .50 cal. sniper rifle-they couldn't get better deal with our money. A lot of people on the other blog are very upset and do not trust the government's intentions.

[docman57]

Big Deal, never owned one, never will, hope the word gets around and they go tits up!