Feeling unwelcome in blue states, gun companies move to red ones

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At least 20 manufacturers have shifted operations to states with friendlier attitudes toward firearms.

, among the country’s largest producers of ammunition magazines, left Colorado for Texas and Wyoming.The next year, gunmaker Kimber Manufacturing fled New York for Alabama.

“These states are openly attracting the industry. Some of them have been very aggressive,” said Mark Oliva, spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group based — as it has been for decades — in Newtown, Conn. The firearms industry is not a huge part of the overall U.S. economy, but it carries symbolic weight. Guns sit at the center of some of the country’s fiercest cultural fights, such as the reach of constitutional rights and worries about crime and violence.These days, the firearms industry is growing rapidly, shaking off years of tepid sales during President Donald Trump’s term.

Smith & Wesson was among the city’s top employers. It donated to local charities and helped sponsor the annual holiday lights display.“It’s a pretty significant impact,” Timothy Sheehan, the city’s chief development officer, said of the gunmaker’s departure.

 

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More jobs I see no issues with this, besides blue states don't need jobs.

That would seem to open them up to intent in a hypothetical lawsuit…

Long article but roughly: Some big name companies are being bribed to go to more supportive States over last 10 years They're looking to consolidate as gun ban laws look to ruin them Areas with lower taxation and tax breaks improve the bottom line Buy guns because of fear

At the rate we're going, soon we'll need monitored entry points between states. Thanks in large part to the dangerous mess Republicans have created.

And soon you will have to be a reg maga repub to buy, denying your 2 A rights and then some. They are probably setting up to strategically arm and supply the red states for their 2nd go at a civil war. It only makes sense to throw conspiracy theories at conspiracy theories. 🤣

Makes sense. Far more people shooting each other in red states. Might as well save the transportation costs.

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