Why aren't they ALREADY gone, given New York's proven animosity to guns and gun rights? How can a person or a company have any self respect and willing cooperate in the continued existence of those who hate and denigrate them and their product? Besides this New York case, the fact that New England and Illinois are centers of gun manufacturing is an outrage.
I can’t understand why Smith and Wesson stays in Massachusetts or Springfield Armory stays in Illinois either.
Isn’t Springfield Armory headquartered in Illinois? Figure that one out.
It is NYC that is the problem. Once you cross the Tappenzee Bridge going north out of NYC, the state is far more conservative and normal. It is gun-friendly, too, outside of the cities. Upstate NY is an example of what happens when socialist governments (that of NYC) run things. The economy of upstate NY is miserable and the industries are museums of pre-1960 America. The NYC financial industry is what enables continuance of this situation. The dominant mill, transportation, and manufacturing industrial engines of upstate NY are no longer.