Smith and Wesson was one of the lead employers in Springfield MA. The state is letting them move their headquarters and a couple hundred manufacturing jobs without so much as a “please stay.”
And it’s not like there are a ton of other good paying blue collar jobs in town.
The city will turn into more of a dump. And it is difficult to imagine it being MORE of a dump.
There is no hope for Springfield. There were many companies from Springfield that left. IIRC Springfield had Smith & Wesson, Indian Motorcycles, Springfield Armory, Duryea Motors and even some Rolls Royce, Miriam Webster Dictionary, Friendlies Ice Cream, and Barney & Berry ice skates - the first metal ice skates, and was the birthplace of Basketball. George Washington choose the site of the Springfield Armory. The place is now usually on the list of the most dangerous cities to live in.
Yep, terminally stupid politicians.
Beretta had a factory in Maryland and when that state passed magazine limitations the company announced it would move. The state said “yeah, right”.
Beretta replied “Beretta doesn’t bluff” and moved.
A bunch of libs versus a family owned company founded in 1532.
Sounds like typical leftard thinking. About 10 years ago Bremerton Washington, the home of praying Coach Kennedy, (love Joe, glad to see him prevail), had a dimocRAT mayor who thought it would be a great idea to harass, cajole and try to extort more money out of the US Navy that operates one of the oldest shipyards in America, The Naval Shipyard Bremerton. (NCIS mentions Bremerton quite often in their shows)
The brilliant mayor even stated, more than once, that Bremerton would be better off if the Navy left the area. Say what? Just in Kitsap County alone the Navy operates 4 installations.
Needless to say he lost his re-election and the last I heard, he moved completely out of the area, probably moved to Seattle, thinking like that works over there with the mentally handicapped.