Posted on 09/13/2014 8:32:11 AM PDT by george76
An upstate New York lawmaker said the loss of manufacturing jobs in the state last month is due to an anti-gun administration that has ignored pleas from local officials to be involved in the negotiating process.
“Remington talks have come to a halt,” said Assemblyman Marc W. Butler (R.-Newport), whose district includes the Village of Ilion, where the Remington Outdoor Company has been located for almost 200 years. “We are losing 105 jobs at the Ilion primary plant,” said Butler.
In February he predicted long-term consequences of Remington’s decision to expand to Huntsville, Ala., instead of Ilion, N.Y. The small community of 8,000 people Northwest of Albany will be hit-hard by the layoffs, said Butler. Remington, the country’s oldest firearm manufacturer, is adding a 500,000 sq.-ft. development site in Huntsville.
“It is very unfortunate for us in New York,” he said. “We have a great, quality work force; expansion here would have been ideal.” There were talks about additional facilities at “The Pumpkin Patch” in Herkimer County; however he said information was not given to the area senator or county officials, until after they learned about it in the news.
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Remington 1911 and Bushmaster is shifting from New York to Alabama due to the odious provisions in the SAFE Act, he said. “Bushmaster rifles are considered assault weapons.” Bushmaster, who is the leading supplier of AR15-type rifles in the nation, is sold to consumers for hunting, recreation, competition, and home defense.
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It is Cuomo’s anti-gun agenda that has hurt business and will continue to hurt business in New York, he said. “Remington has been critical of the SAFE Act since the gun-control law was championed by Cuomo in January 2013.”
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Oh goody, now crime will be competely eliminated. Guns bad, Islamo psychopaths and vicious drug gangs armed by Eric Holder flooding the country through the wide open border good.
so you would love to see your sisters friends loose their jobs and the economy of your state fail..sounds a bit counter productive.just sayen
Andrew evil eyes Cuomo who said if you are conservative he doesn’t want you in HIS state
It sure would be. I say we take Gary, Chicago, and Milwaukee and let them form their own state. Shame about Lake Couny IL, tho.
Ayn Rand nailed this in Atlas Shrugged. The next logical step for the socialists is to pass a law making it illegal to move a business from one state to another in order to survive. Unless, of course, you are a liberal like Pelosi. Then, your husband can open his factory overseas and use non-union labor at below minimum wage to make tidy profits.
I've never been to N.Y.C and have no desire to ever go there but I have been upstate in N.Y. and it is indeed "a beautiful part of the country".
N.Y. is like many other states, afflicted with a large city, filled with the very worst sort of people (liberals) and they (liberals) make life miserable for everyone in the state.
I know, I live in Not Chicago, Illinois.
I clicked. What is that a list of, exactly?
And to the security of a free state. Notice how they always leave that tidbit out?
ALL of the gun manufacturers should hit the bastards where it REALLY hurts and refuse to sell firearms to ANY non-civillian entities in anti-gun states(or even the feds). On the other hand, that would be a big loss to the manufacturers as well.
The ammo manufacturers could help alot in this regard too, but likewise, they would be harmed even more. If you’re an ammunition manufacturer and the FDA orders 10 billion rounds of ammo(for some damn reason), that would be difficult to pass up. I probably wouldn’t. lol
Such people are not welcome in the new society, comrade. /sarc
If we could throw out LA, California might work, too.
Imagine if Lord Cuomo and his ilk were in charge during the forming of this country? We wouldn’t be a country today. We would still be giving our alleigance to the British crown.
Frack Cuomo.
I wouldn't complain if we lost it but East St. Louis is tiny. (population 26,708)
I have a place in my heart for California. I wish I’d known it before the nutters took over. The closest thing remaining to what it must have been like is Orange County. I don’t know inland and far northern CA that well, I understand that those areas can be quite conservative.
Does Remington offer them the chance to relocate to Huntsville?
I would guess that the majority are skilled workers that they could use at the new facility.
http://nypost.com/2011/06/21/keeping-the-jobs-promise-to-upstate/
“Go south young man is what I’d tell my son.”
Virgnia is turning blue because every Yankee that flees their hell ridden democrat state brings their politics with them.
Yes, we are. Come on down to God’s country.
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