1 posted on
03/22/2006 10:55:45 AM PST by
neverdem
To: Puppage; nutmeg
BANG!
2 posted on
03/22/2006 10:56:41 AM PST by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
To: neverdem
I may regret not getting that Model 70 I have always coveted!
3 posted on
03/22/2006 10:58:21 AM PST by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: AAABEST; wku man; SLB; Travis McGee; Squantos; Shooter 2.5; The Old Hoosier; xrp; freedomlover; ...
6 posted on
03/22/2006 11:08:33 AM PST by
Joe Brower
(The Constitution defines Conservatism. *NRA*)
To: neverdem
9 posted on
03/22/2006 11:13:25 AM PST by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: neverdem
City Hall is asking USRAC’s parent company, Belgium-based Herstal Group, to cede control of the plant to the city or another gun maker. In exchange, the city has offered to forgive $17 million in tax abatements, lease obligations and workers’ pay the city says Herstal owes. Why would anyone reopen in New Haven? Buy the tools and move to more friendly environs.
11 posted on
03/22/2006 11:17:31 AM PST by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: neverdem
I suspect someone will take over the name, not sure about the plant tho. Manufacturing guns in New England does not make much sense to me.
12 posted on
03/22/2006 11:18:37 AM PST by
yarddog
To: neverdem
Smith has been cosidering gettting into long guns again, aside from the M&P 15. This would be a good way to do it.
To: neverdem
The environment for a gun maker in New England isn't that good. They would be better served by moving to someplace like Texas, Oklahoma, or even South Dakota.
I suspect someone will pick up the name and leave the plant. Most of the equipment is in need of an upgrade anyway.
15 posted on
03/22/2006 11:22:01 AM PST by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
To: neverdem
Buy the company and then move it to a red state. Why are gun makers still operating in the Northeast US? ... for crying out loud.
17 posted on
03/22/2006 11:24:19 AM PST by
hattend
(Democrats have no grassroots coalition, they have nutroots (thanks PJ-Comix))
To: neverdem
There's a pretty rich irony in all this. Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson ran out of money in 1854 and were rescued by a feller named Oliver Winchester. That's how they ended up in New Haven.
History Here. The wheel does turn, doesn't it?
To: neverdem
I wish Colt had the wherewithal to buy Winchester. It would please me to keep it here in CT and two brands with such a heritage in the settling of the west would go well together.
Fond pointless dream, while I'm at it, I wish I had the wherewithal to but Winchester
36 posted on
03/22/2006 1:28:25 PM PST by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: neverdem
Winchester should be owned by an American Company.They are more than welcome to move to Kentucky as this is a VERY gun friendly state.
To: neverdem; All
Is Smith and Wesson still owned by the Brits?
45 posted on
03/22/2006 2:03:43 PM PST by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: neverdem
FYI: CDNN is having a Winchester blow out sale...
To: neverdem
There is one piece of irony, Smith and Wesson originally invented a lever-action pistol. They could not make a commercial success out of the gun, and were forced to sell the design to Oliver Winchester. Winchester used the design for building his famous lever-action rifles. Winchester became synonymous with rifle. Now, S&W may take over the plant and be making Winchester Rifles.
64 posted on
03/22/2006 4:32:57 PM PST by
punster
To: RaceBannon; scoopscandal; 2Trievers; LoneGOPinCT; Rodney King; sorrisi; MrSparkys; monafelice; ...
Connecticut ping!
Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.
68 posted on
03/22/2006 5:30:59 PM PST by
nutmeg
(NEVER trust democRATs with our national security)
To: 2nd amendment mama
70 posted on
03/22/2006 6:56:47 PM PST by
basil
(Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
To: neverdem; Joe Brower
ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease.....
73 posted on
03/22/2006 9:47:23 PM PST by
kstewskis
("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big".....Jerry Fletcher)
To: neverdem
"Gunmaker shooting to renovate old factory"
To: neverdem
The question I would ask ...is therre anything there worth having?
I would guess the plant is old and perhaps obsolete.
The city is blowing smoke about the back taxes. They didn't collect them hoping the place wouldn't close. A subsidy given can't be reclaimed.
79 posted on
03/23/2006 2:12:28 PM PST by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)
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