Posted on 09/13/2014 8:32:11 AM PDT by george76
An upstate New York lawmaker said the loss of manufacturing jobs in the state last month is due to an anti-gun administration that has ignored pleas from local officials to be involved in the negotiating process.
“Remington talks have come to a halt,” said Assemblyman Marc W. Butler (R.-Newport), whose district includes the Village of Ilion, where the Remington Outdoor Company has been located for almost 200 years. “We are losing 105 jobs at the Ilion primary plant,” said Butler.
In February he predicted long-term consequences of Remington’s decision to expand to Huntsville, Ala., instead of Ilion, N.Y. The small community of 8,000 people Northwest of Albany will be hit-hard by the layoffs, said Butler. Remington, the country’s oldest firearm manufacturer, is adding a 500,000 sq.-ft. development site in Huntsville.
“It is very unfortunate for us in New York,” he said. “We have a great, quality work force; expansion here would have been ideal.” There were talks about additional facilities at “The Pumpkin Patch” in Herkimer County; however he said information was not given to the area senator or county officials, until after they learned about it in the news.
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Remington 1911 and Bushmaster is shifting from New York to Alabama due to the odious provisions in the SAFE Act, he said. “Bushmaster rifles are considered assault weapons.” Bushmaster, who is the leading supplier of AR15-type rifles in the nation, is sold to consumers for hunting, recreation, competition, and home defense.
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It is Cuomo’s anti-gun agenda that has hurt business and will continue to hurt business in New York, he said. “Remington has been critical of the SAFE Act since the gun-control law was championed by Cuomo in January 2013.”
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Just, damn.
It is. I have lived here since 1966.
“There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.” ― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Christian Religion An Enquiry
NC has turned purple for the same reason. It’s easier to run into someone from New Jersey or New York in some NC cities than native-born now.
I remember reading that after the German rocket scientists were located to Huntsville, they loved the area and let their friends and relatives in Germany in on the fact.
A lot of them moved there.
I own two Hyundia Sonata's built there. Great cars.
I feel sorry for the upstaters. It’s not their fault.
This isn’t entirely good news. Now NY, and soon Mass. Senators and Representatives, will have no economic reason at all to oppose Anti-2nd Amendment legislation.
Heretofore, they had some constituents who “got it.”
Oldplayer
The advertisements are a tacit admission that high taxes are a big economic problem.
Has there ever been a serious effort to split the state?
The only serious attempt at splitting any American territory came around the 1860’s.
Modern day Dallas is a lot like how I remember California back in the 80's.
Make the dividing line the northern border of Orange and Dutchess counties,
“Upstate needs to break away from the city. The two are terminally at odds in every respect. Form a new state, secede, whatever. It’s not working and is killing a beautiful part of the country.”
This is the same with most cities around the country. There really isn’t any way the voting process can represent the people of ‘Upstate’, or rural Illinois, or any other flyover area where you have a massive libtard city calling the shots. This massive strongholds of liberalism are completely dependent upon the agriculture and manufacturing of the rural areas they so arrogantly thumb their noses at. Cut off their supply of the fruits of rural hard work and see how quickly they find those dumb Christian conservative, flag waving, country folks really might be worth listening to.
Amen sister, amen . . . . .
This is it exactly. The way to limit the overreach by the cities is landowner voting only.
Only part of TX with a California feel to me is the Hill Country plus Austin and San Antonio. In general it’s pretty liberal by TX standards. Dallas is a very dynamic place with a booming economy but it doesn’t do it for me, can’t quite put my finger on why.
A North Carolina Amen brother !
I bet they do. It takes a lot of highly skilled machinists to make firearms. It would be a lot cheaper to pay their help to move than to train new employees.
Roll Tide!
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