This has been known for a very long time. Ya don’t just move an entire manufacturing company overnight. There have been threads on FR about this since, I think, last year at least.
Long known: Yup. It’s been in the works for at least a decade. Remington built a very large, 600,000 sq ft as I recall, new plant space sown south. South Carolina IIRC. One interesting aspect is they’re leaving their old machinery behind. Modernizing. Smith and Wesson did a similar thing in the 90’s. The new machinery displaced a bunch of people. Watch for Remington to bring all their models back in house. That Northeast corridor, ancestral home of the US gun bidness, has outlived its “use by” date.
“This has been known for a very long time.”
Yep. I can’t remember when they announced the move (two years ago?), but I remember discussions here on the issue. Several firearm and firearm accessory companies have moved out of blue states and into more gun-friendly red states over the past ten or so years. I believe Georgia (as in this case), SC, and Tennessee are the destination for most of them. Each time, the politicians and anti-gunners from the abandoned state issues press-releases celebrating the loss of the business, tax-dollars, and jobs. They tell the now unemployed workers how much safer they will be.
The destination state celebrates the new business, tax-dollars, additional jobs, and abundance of new (and sometimes less expensive) firearms in their state.