Author Topic: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York  (Read 2975 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

famousdayandyear

  • Guest
Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« on: January 22, 2013, 11:10:54 pm »


http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/printable/node/8276

Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York in response to Bloomy-backed gun bill

by Chad D. Baus

The New York Daily News reported recently that one of the world's major gun manufacturers is threatening to pull its plant out of New York over a gun bill pushed by Mayor Bloomberg.

From the article:

    Remington Arms Company, in a recent letter to Gov. Cuomo, said it may be forced to bail on the Empire State if a law requiring bullet casings to carry unique markings is enacted.

    Supporters argue the technology, known as microstamping, would help solve gun crimes. Detractors say it's unreliable, easily tampered with and costly.

    Remington has a manufacturing plant that employs more than 1,000 workers in the village of Ilion, about 90 miles west of Albany.

    "Mandating firearms micro- stamping will restrict the ability of Remington to expand business in the Empire State," company chief strategy officer Stephen Jackson Jr. wrote to Cuomo.

    "Worse yet, Remington could be forced to reconsider its commitment to the New York market altogether rather than spend the astronomical sums of money needed to completely reconfigure our manufacturing and assembly processes."

    Jackson insisted that law enforcement, gun retailers and "law-abiding consumers throughout New York — if not the entire country" would be directly affected.

    Senate bill sponsor Jose Peralta dismissed Remingtons warning as "just another tactic being used to try and block microstamping, which is supported by many crime-fighters."

    He said gun manufacturers didn't leave California and Massachusetts when those states enacted ballistic identification rules.

    Cuomo during his 2010 campaign called microstamping a “common-sense” and “pro-law enforcement” gun safety law.

    The governors position has not changed, even with Remingtons threat to leave, Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said

Fortunately, the article says the legislation is not expected to clear the GOP-controlled Senate, where Democratic efforts to bring it to the floor have been blocked.

In his continuing the effort to bring more jobs to Ohio, perhaps Gov. Kasich and his JobsOhio initiative could take this opportunity to reach out to the Remington Arms Company and make the case for a move to the Buckeye State!

Offline Rapunzel

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 71,613
  • Gender: Female
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2013, 11:29:58 pm »
Hmm they could move to Ohio -- Wisconsin or Texas.
�The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves.� G Washington July 2, 1776

Oceander

  • Guest
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2013, 12:52:07 am »
I really, really hope they do.  Lock, stock, and barrel (pun intended!).  I also hope they fire all the current workers and leave them to wallow in the disgusting mess of a state they've helped create.  Moving to Texas would be a perfect fit.

famousdayandyear

  • Guest
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2013, 01:08:46 am »

Offline Cincinnatus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5,513
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2013, 01:24:56 am »
Hey, Remington, enough palaver.

We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid ~~ Samuel Adams

Offline PzLdr

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3,421
  • Gender: Male
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2013, 02:08:19 pm »

http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/printable/node/8276

Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York in response to Bloomy-backed gun bill

by Chad D. Baus

The New York Daily News reported recently that one of the world's major gun manufacturers is threatening to pull its plant out of New York over a gun bill pushed by Mayor Bloomberg.

From the article:

    Remington Arms Company, in a recent letter to Gov. Cuomo, said it may be forced to bail on the Empire State if a law requiring bullet casings to carry unique markings is enacted.

    Supporters argue the technology, known as microstamping, would help solve gun crimes. Detractors say it's unreliable, easily tampered with and costly.

    Remington has a manufacturing plant that employs more than 1,000 workers in the village of Ilion, about 90 miles west of Albany.

    "Mandating firearms micro- stamping will restrict the ability of Remington to expand business in the Empire State," company chief strategy officer Stephen Jackson Jr. wrote to Cuomo.

    "Worse yet, Remington could be forced to reconsider its commitment to the New York market altogether rather than spend the astronomical sums of money needed to completely reconfigure our manufacturing and assembly processes."

    Jackson insisted that law enforcement, gun retailers and "law-abiding consumers throughout New York — if not the entire country" would be directly affected.

    Senate bill sponsor Jose Peralta dismissed Remingtons warning as "just another tactic being used to try and block microstamping, which is supported by many crime-fighters."

    He said gun manufacturers didn't leave California and Massachusetts when those states enacted ballistic identification rules.

    Cuomo during his 2010 campaign called microstamping a “common-sense” and “pro-law enforcement” gun safety law.

    The governors position has not changed, even with Remingtons threat to leave, Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto said

Fortunately, the article says the legislation is not expected to clear the GOP-controlled Senate, where Democratic efforts to bring it to the floor have been blocked.

In his continuing the effort to bring more jobs to Ohio, perhaps Gov. Kasich and his JobsOhio initiative could take this opportunity to reach out to the Remington Arms Company and make the case for a move to the Buckeye State!

Don't threaten it, Damn it! Do it! Liberals should learn there are consequences for their grandstanding stupidity! :chairbang:
Hillary's Self-announced Qualifications: She Stood Up To Putin...She Sits to Pee

Offline PzLdr

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3,421
  • Gender: Male
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2013, 02:09:03 pm »
Hmm they could move to Ohio -- Wisconsin or Texas.

Or Wyoming.  :patriot:
Hillary's Self-announced Qualifications: She Stood Up To Putin...She Sits to Pee

Online DCPatriot

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 45,800
  • Gender: Male
  • "...and the winning number is...not yours!
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2013, 10:16:10 pm »
Or Wyoming.  :patriot:


Ya misspelled "Virginia".   LOL!
"It aint what you don't know that kills you.  It's what you know that aint so!" ...Theodore Sturgeon

"Journalism is about covering the news.  With a pillow.  Until it stops moving."    - David Burge (Iowahawk)

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living" F. Scott Fitzgerald

Offline olde north church

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5,117
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2013, 02:16:47 am »
They should take it two steps further, stop the sale of firearms and bullets in the state.
Why?  Well, because I'm a bastard, that's why.

Offline evadR

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3,190
  • Gender: Male
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2013, 02:28:35 am »
DO IT DO IT DO IT
November 6, 2012, a day in infamy...the death of a republic as we know it.

Offline Atomic Cow

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18,221
  • Gender: Male
  • High Yield Minion
Re: Remington Arms Company threatens to pull plant out of New York
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2013, 02:47:21 am »
Every gun maker should do what Barrett does to California.

Barrett will not service any weapons owned by any law enforcement agency in California, nor will they sell any spare/replacement parts to them.
"...And these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange, even to the men who used them."  H. G. Wells, The World Set Free, 1914

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections." -Lord Acton