Remington Creates 2000 Jobs in Alabama

[Origanalist]

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If you have a kid looking for a job, send them to the firearms industry. Remington Outdoor Company is expanding its business outside of unfriendly New York and creating 2000 jobs over the next ten years in Alabama. The company plans to build a new factory in the old Chrysler building in Huntsville and is being welcomed with open arms to The Heart of Dixie.

“I am honored to welcome Remington to Alabama,” Governor Robert Bentley said in a statement. “The Alabama workforce, our business climate and our quality of life continue to make Alabama extremely attractive to companies. Remington will soon experience the same type of success that other companies in Alabama have already experienced. Today’s announcement will create more than 2,000 jobs in Huntsville, and reflects a statewide capital investment of $110 million. Our relationship with Remington is just beginning, and I look forward to a continued partnership with the company.”

With increases in production, employment and record sales, necessary expansion is a direct result of a booming firearms industry. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, overall the firearms industry employs more than 200,000 people, has an economic impact of over $33 billion each year and provides the federal government with more than $4 billion in excise taxes each year.

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[Origanalist]

Gun Companies Continue to Abandon North for Pro-Gun South;

What started as a slow trickle when American Tactical Imports (ATI) and PTR moved from the northeast to South Carolina, has now become an all out surge with Magpul Industries leaving Colorado, Beretta leaving Maryland for Tennessee, and Remington acquiring a 500,000 square ft. facility in Alabama.

As Breitbart News previously reported, Governor Andrew Cuomo's (D) SAFE Act drove ATI from New York in October while Governor Dannel Malloy's (D) draconian gun control drove PTR from Connecticut in June.

In early 2013 Magpul made it clear they were leaving Colorado if the state's Democrat legislators passed a ban on "high capacity" magazines. The legislators passed the ban anyway, and on January 2, 2014 Breitbart News reported that Magpul was moving manufacturing to Wyoming and its corporate headquarters to Texas.

Magpul's Duane Liptak, Jr., told Breitbart News that Texas and Wyoming both had something his company craved--"strong cultures of personal responsibility, self reliance and individual liberty."

Beretta was looking intently at Virginia until Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) was elected on promises of more gun control. They quickly marked the Old Dominion off their short list and chose Tennessee instead, where Governor Bill Haslam (R) greeted them with open arms.
Beretta Executive Vice President Franco Gussalli Beretta went out of his way to explain how "Haslam and his economic team did an excellent job of demonstrating the benefits of doing business in Tennessee."

And then came Remington, the arms maker that has been making firearms in Ilion, NY since 1816. After Governor Cuomo's SAFE Act made a number of their guns illegal to sell (or own) within NY state, it was well known that Remington was looking for a more gun friendly atmosphere.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/17/Gun-Companies-Continue-To-Abandon-The-North-For-The-Pro-Gun-South

[tod evans]

Good!

[Lucille]

Drip … drip … drip.
http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2014/02/18/drip-drip-drip/


...Remington has been identified for nearly two centuries with an otherwise unheralded burg in upstate New York. Ilion. That’s where a man with the marvelous name of Eliphalet Remington designed his first gun. And since 1816, apparently not much else has ever happened in Ilion other than … Remington.

The company says it has no intention of abandoning its plant or employees there; it’s just expanding (and good for Remington). Furthermore, a Cuomo spokesthing waves its arms and frantically shouts, “New York isn’t losing any jobs! New York isn’t losing any jobs!”

But this is how it works. Even a union official (member of a crowd that tends to be oblivious to ways in which actions produce consequences) understands (http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/02/remington_arms_expansion_in_alabama_not_good_for_i lion_plant_union_official.html).

SAFE Act … general nannying … high costs of doing business … crushing regulation = eventual goodbye.

Drip … drip … drip.

Remington isn’t abandoning New York now. But five or ten years from now, if they need to downsize, will they close the plant in the state that hates and taxes them to death? Or the state that welcomes them? Five or ten years from now, if they need to expand, will they expand in the state that hates and taxes them to death? Or the state (or, hate to say it, country) that welcomes them?

Drip … drip … drip.

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There are no surprises here. This is just human history in action. Sometimes we could wish it happened faster, though, so that more people would understand the connection.

It’s easy to see what’s happening when a pogrom or a famine or a military coup drives people and their money and their creativity and their entrepreneurial energies out of a country or a region. The smartest leave...

[Keith and stuff]

Makes sense. If I had a company and a governor offered to cover the costs of moving my business with tax money, and I knew I could pay people less at the new location, why not. If it wasn't for all of these bad laws in CO/CT/NY, then taxpayers in TX/TN/AL/SC wouldn't be on the hook for the corporate welfare. Plus, since much of the power in TN/AL is subsidized by the federal government, the power rates are likely a lot lower there too. So legislators in CO/CO/NY aren't just hurting the people where they live, they are also hurting taxpayers in the South :(

[Cabal]

Enjoy it while it lasts, Remington.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DconsfGsXyA

I wonder what kind of deal Remington got from the Gov to setup shop there.

[VoluntaryAmerican]

Remington and its workers have been key voices in protests against the NY Safe Act, a series of stricter gun laws signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo 13 months ago. Last May, the company wrote on its Facebook pay that the military contract was not a sign that Remington had been paid off to stay in New York.

Still, the company made no promise to stay in Ilion.

"Remington will not run or abandon its loyal and hard working 1,300 employees without considerable thought and deliberation," the company wrote last May.

The new plant in Huntsville would be about half the size as the one in Ilion. Production would not begin before 2015.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/02/remington_outdoor_co_to_open_factory_in_alabama.ht ml

[nobody's_hero]

Enjoy it while it lasts, Remington.

I wonder what kind of deal Remington got from the Gov to setup shop there.

Probably a better one than Cuomo is willing to offer, in any case.