Posted on 09/30/2021 9:35:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
That “Pew! Pew! Pew!” sound you heard was gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson giving a final disgusted “salute” to the ingrates running what once was the cradle of American freedom, Massachusetts.
The iconic gunmaker has been headquartered in Springfield for more than 170 years, but the company announced it would pull up stakes on its headquarters and move to a new home just outside Knoxville, Tenn., because of anti-gun legislation and proposed bans that would, obviously, put it out business.
The constant attacks on gun manufacturers and ever-present legislation by anti-freedom Leftists—gunning for the company—left it little choice but to move.
The Boston Business Journal reported that Massachusetts Leftists, who apparently hate the American value of self-defense, had been after the company for years.
The announcement comes months after two high-ranking House Democrats, Reps. Marjorie Decker of Cambridge and Frank Moran of Lawrence, filed a bill to ban the manufacturing of assault weapons or large-capacity feeding devices, with exceptions for military and law enforcement uses. The bill, H.D. 4192, was referred to the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security, where it remains under review. A companion bill in the Senate filed by Sen. Cynthia Creem has been referred to the Joint Committee on the Judiciary.
The products targeted by the legislation were responsible for 60% of the company’s revenue last year, according to Smith.
The company will escape the anti-freedom and anti-gun Massachusetts apparatchiks who wouldn’t recognize Sam Adams if he appeared to them on a beer bottle at Cheers.
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The local town fathers can pave all the grassy areas and turn it into a shopping mall. I'm sure there are few manufacturing businesses that will want to buy it and settle in that fascist State.
The only kink is that I wonder if The International
Association of Machinists had any say in this. If so, that’s more money to the Dems.
Indeed, I do like Tennessee. Got family here.
About the same amount of time that people who have moved into Massachusetts learn how to pronounce "Worchester".
"Wooster".
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