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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome Gun Makers Moving to Gun Friendly States.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/business/wooed-by-gun-friendly-states-some-manufacturers-pull-up-stakes.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2BRISTOL, Conn. Even gun makers want to be liked. So governors and other politicians from states eager to embrace the industry have descended on places where they are not so popular like Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Colorado offering tax breaks and outright cash grants to persuade them to relocate.
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PTR is packing up its cutting machines and moving its work force of 50 to South Carolina, saying that tough new state gun laws enacted after the school shooting in nearby Newtown made it too risky to keep doing business in Connecticut.
Similar new laws in Maryland prompted Beretta to call off plans to add jobs locally, and the company is now completing plans to expand in a more gun-friendly state.
Kahr Firearms Group, a pistol and rifle maker based less than an hours drive north of Manhattan in Rockland County, N.Y., is moving across the border to Pennsylvania.
More at above link, includes news video.
Ruger is not moving but is building a new facility in a gun friendly state.
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Some Gun Makers Moving to Gun Friendly States. (Original Post)
GreenStormCloud
Aug 2013
OP
Connecticut. Their entire economy is weapons manufacturing and being a suburb of Manhattan. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#14
Yep, move to state full of bigots with guns. What better place for purveyors of death/intimidation.
Hoyt
Aug 2013
#6
Good. Have them all in a few places makes it easier to boycott businesses there. nt
kelliekat44
Aug 2013
#13
Nunliebekinder
(33 posts)1. Seems like a logical decision.
Is there supposed to be controversy here?
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)2. It's a gun thread in GD.
Controversy can be assumed.
Honestly, I can't imagine PTR doing anything else. Why conduct business in an increasingly hostile environment when other viable options exist?
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)3. I fully support gun manufacturers moving.
Why should ANY company provide one penny of taxes, or create jobs with the ripple effect, to a state that demonizes them?
tumtum
(438 posts)4. We'll welcome them with open arms (pun intended) in AZ.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)5. Good. Adios. Who needs ya.
PTN is probably looking for cheap labor anyway.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)14. Connecticut. Their entire economy is weapons manufacturing and being a suburb of Manhattan. n/t
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)6. Yep, move to state full of bigots with guns. What better place for purveyors of death/intimidation.
South Carolina will be just perfect for these guys.
Doesn't every gun nut need one of these PTR weapons:
PTR's CEO will fit in well there too:
otohara
(24,135 posts)7. Buh Bye Death Merchants
one moved out of my state but not before being assholes
PM Martin
(2,660 posts)8. These death merchants belong in Texas or Alabama.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)11. We will be happy to have those jobs down here. N/T
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)9. We have a Glock facility here in the Atlanta area. n/t
BumRushDaShow
(128,925 posts)10. Well... PA really is a state where a now-famous person proclaimed
that folks "cling to their guns and religion".
Guess they will have even more opportunity to do so now.
GalaxyHunter
(271 posts)12. It's in their best interest, so why not?
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)13. Good. Have them all in a few places makes it easier to boycott businesses there. nt
Erose999
(5,624 posts)15. Lets just send 'em to Mexico. Cut out the middleman in getting their wares to the cartels.