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Posted on 01/06/2014 10:12:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Horry County's newest manufacturer is open for business. PTR Industries began its first day in South Carolina by welcoming its new local employees.
The rifle manufacturer decided last year to move from its home base in Connecticut, after that state's legislature passed restrictive gun laws in the wake of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown.
PTR's new building in the Cool Springs Business Park near Aynor is still mostly empty and a few weeks away from being at full production, so the first day on the job for the eleven local workers the company has brought on board so far consisted mostly of having them sort and inventory boxes of gun parts.
But the company plans to have rifle assembly operations up and running by January 20, after a massive move-in and set-up operation.
"We've got our entire crew up in Connecticut, plus a crew of about 40 movers, 32 trucks and everybody's going to be working basically from now until the 20th to get all that done, so it's a project, it's a challenge," said PTR CEO Josh Fiorini.
Fiorini says a second wave of local employees will come on board in February, joining the 21 employees moving here from PTR's current base in Connecticut, to make a total contingent of nearly 50 workers.
He says the company plans to quickly add many more.
"The eventual goal is 120 (employees), short term within the next 3 years."
Stan Parker is among those Horry County residents starting a career with PTR.
Parker says he's long been a gun enthusiast, so being able to make rifles for a living is a dream come true.
He expects the company to have a big impact on the county.
"There's the trickle down effect of the incomes we make, we spend in local businesses," Parker said. "The company's growing, or going to grow. They have projected plans for that. I think it will effect the community as a whole in a positive way."
PTR now has much more room to grow that it did before. The plant is 58,000 square feet under one roof, which means the company can add two new gun models to its product line.
"We've really been kind of sitting on our projects, waiting until we could run with them and now we can," Fiorini said.
Fiorini says he's happy with the local people he's hired so far and with the initial training they've been able to get through the SC Works program and Horry Georgetown Technical College.
About 2,000 people applied for the 30 job openings posted by PTR in November.
Somebody straighten out this for me—does PTR only build parts sets? Is that why Century has come into the discussion?
I have an AR10T that I’m fond of and several AR15s in various guises that are fun just because liberals hate them so much but I really prefer fine bolt action hunting rifles. I’m drooling over one right now. That’s gonna be my firearm focus for a while I think.
Damn auto spell!
PTR, long ago, used to assemble parts sets into rifles. Since then, they bought all the HK tooling and machinery from the Portugese armory that was making them under license and are now making entire rifles in the US. They are all new, all US made.
Century is just slapping parts kits together on a US reciever and calling it a day.
Wow... How about that Summer of Recovery, man that Obama Economy is smoking right along here.. ( sarc / off )
Not sure if anyone has noticed that some time ago Henry Firearms quietly move much of their operations to Wisconsin and, WE all welcome them albeit a late “welcome”.
I have handled, fired, and cleaned a HK 91.
I have handled, fired, and cleaned a PTR 91.
They are made the same, except the PTR 91 has a much better factory trigger.
I’ve had a PTR91 for about 8 years now. Well made rifle, I’m very pleased with mine. PTR builds them in the USA using original factory equipment purchased from Portugal (I think). It’s the closest you can get to a new HK91.
The only drawback is for those who collect their brass for reloading. They have a fluted chamber to aid in extraction that really screws up the brass. I just feed mine the cheap russian stuff for plinking, it works fine.
Of course, with the cost of ammo, it doesn’t get out to the range as often as when it was new.
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Personal experience: They are good. It has a fluted chamber so that might be a consideration if you reload. Hits on a steel plate can be made out to 500 yards- using an 18 inch barrel. The trigger can be worked on to get a decent “PULL”.
I would say buy one. my two cents.
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