When you throw in accessory, parts, and related tool makers there are dozens more. It is, after all, the old industrial northeast.
Yes, old industries have secondary suppliers that they depend on. I could see how that is.
But, can the firearms companies continue to take the punishment. I saw this happen in the Chicago Area. It was the center for hardware manufacturing for 100+ years. China killed the manufacturing and the cost of doing business killed the distribution and the cost of office presence forced the industry out. Now it is dispersed.
Banking/Finance/Brokerage in the NE is facing the same thing. The NY Stock Exchange was purchased by a company in Atlanta, if I understood correctly. It that the beginning of the slide for that industry?
Guess we shall see.
“...When you throw in accessory, parts, and related tool makers there are dozens more. It is, after all, the old industrial northeast....”
What you say was true, especially 20 years or so ago.
Now, with modern technology, that kind of physical reliance is not so pressing anymore. What can be manufactured in CT can just as easily be manufactured in TX: as good as, if not better than.