This may be old news on The Lounge but here goes:
“ LAGRANGE, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday announced Remington Firearms will locate its global headquarters in LaGrange, where it will also open a new advanced manufacturing operation as well as a research and development center.

Through these projects, the company will invest $100 million and create 856 jobs over a five-year period in Troup County.

“Georgia’s firearms industry is responsible for thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of investment in our communities,” said Kemp, adding that he is “excited to welcome them to their new home in the Peach State.”

Founded in 1816, Remington Firearms is one of the United States’ largest domestic producers of shotguns and rifles. Several of the company’s strategic products will be manufactured in Georgia.

“We are very excited to come to Georgia, a state that not only welcomes business but enthusiastically supports and welcomes companies in the firearms industry,” said Ken D’Arcy, company CEO.

The company will be hiring for positions in production, operations, engineering, and management, as well as careers in HR, finance, and administration in Remington’s onsite executive offices.”

As John Wayne might say- Where's your link, pilgrim?

Link: https://www.wtoc.com/2021/11/0...eadquarters-georgia/

Well, alrighty, then. Come on down outta crazyland.

I'm a fan of Atlas Shrugged, in spite of some of it's being so long and now dated.
This steady drumbeat of companies and people moving out of the more blue/woke states is so reminiscent of the stories told there just shows the economic laws of nature and human nature don't change. That's really the lesson of the book.
Glad to see some ending up in my state too.

https://gov.georgia.gov/press-...rs-open-new-advanced

Build your shack outside Lagraaaange

This may be a move in the right direction but Remington has a lot to prove before I'll ever spend a nickel on one of their products.

I like Remington ammunition. I'm glad to see them here. It makes a statement.

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Originally posted by Arty:
I like Remington ammunition. I'm glad to see them here. It makes a statement.

That's a different company.

Yeah. Whatever. They had a state of the art facility here in Huntsville too until they left our town holding the bag.

https://www.huntsvilleal.gov/h...gton-arms-agreement/

I just want some shims for my V3, which, to its credit, is an extraordinarily soft shooting and reliable shotgun.

I think I’ll wait for awhile to see if the real estate company who bought the firearms segment (Roundhill LLC) actually does something good with it before I buy another firearm from them.

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Originally posted by Arty:
I like Remington ammunition. I'm glad to see them here. It makes a statement.

That's a different company.

….Located in Arkansas.

https://www.timesunion.com/new...ew-York-16609866.php

Remington says manufacturing will stay in New York
However, after headquarters move to Georgia further expansion will be in southern states

Rick Karlin
Nov. 10, 2021
Updated: Nov. 10, 2021 6:11 p.m.

ILION — News that the historic Remington firearms company is moving its headquarters to Georgia has reignited debate over whether New York's tough gun laws are pushing out such companies.

Officials at RemArms, the venerable gun maker's new owners, though, stressed that they also plan to expand manufacturing in Ilion, where the company was started in 1816.

"In Ilion, we are increasing production and attempting to hire more employees. The entire executive staff have spent a lot of time in Ilion, we are very pleased with the work being done and are confident we will be able to increase production in Ilion as needed," company officials said in an email in response to an inquiry about the new Georgia headquarters.

While not abandoning Ilion, they also made it clear that they wanted to be based in Georgia because of New York's tough gun control laws.

"The decision to locate in Georgia is very simple, the state of Georgia is not only a business-friendly state, it’s a firearms-friendly state," they said.

Even though Ilion is considered the original Remington site, the actual headquarters has recently been in Alabama, where the company's bankruptcy was filed last year.

More than 700 people worked at the Ilion plant when the old owners went into bankruptcy. The new owners, a consortium of investors known as the Roundhill Group, purchased the company and changed its official name to RemArms.

About 220 unionized workers are now at the plant, said Phil Smith, spokesman for the United Mine Workers of America, which represents the employees. It was unclear how many management employees are there.

The company's new CEO took an indirect swipe at New York's gun control laws when he announced the upcoming move to Georgia earlier in the week.

“We are very excited to come to Georgia, a state that not only welcomes business but enthusiastically supports and welcomes companies in the firearms industry,” RemArms CEO Ken D’Arcy said in a prepared statement regarding the move.

In addition to their corporate headquarters, the company plans a new manufacturing plant as well as an R&D center at their new home in LaGrange, which is about an hour from Atlanta.

Even though RemArms cited Georgia's gun-friendly laws, it's not clear that New York’s laws alone were enough to prompt the headquarters going to Georgia.

Manufacturers have been leaving upstate New York for decades, citing high taxes and tough regulations.

The state of Georgia and local government offered Remington a variety of inducements to move to the Peach State. Local governments in Herkimer County, though, also offered a tax break for the plant to keep operating.

But at least one local lawmaker said New York's gun laws may have been a factor.

“New York state policies under one party Democrat rule, which are unkind to businesses in general and have directly singled out gun makers, play a substantial role in Remington’s decision to look to a more welcoming state for expansion,” State Sen. Peter Oberacker, an Otsego County Republican whose district is near the factory, said in a statement about the move.

Remington earlier in the year had weighed in against a proposal, which has since been signed into law, that could hold gun makers liable if it is found that they irresponsibly fuel the criminal gun market.

Remington went into bankruptcy in part due to lawsuits in which survivors of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Conn., sued the company. One of their assault-style rifles known as the Bushmaster was used in the school shooting.

The firm was also carrying a heavy debt load from when it was purchased in a leveraged buyout years earlier.

At least one other company left New York over the years citing strict gun laws.

Kahr Arms, which had been based in Rockland County, expanded and then moved to Pennsylvania in 2013 after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed through the SAFE Act gun control law months after the Sandy Hook massacre. Kahr at the time said it wasn't the actual law, which banned assault-style weapons, but the rapidity with which it passed that worried them. Company executives said that made them worry about what other legal or regulatory obstacles they might face going forward.

Kahr started business in the 1990s and was founded by Justin Moon, son of South Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church.

Founded in Ilion in 1816, Remington is one of the U.S.’s oldest and best-known firearms makers.

Purchase of the company last year was spearheaded by Richmond Italia, who operated a large paintball company in Quebec.

It wasn’t immediately clear what role Italia now has at RemArms.

D’Arcy has worked in a variety of positions including CEO of Crosman air rifle manufacturer and Bolle, a French firm that makes goggles and sunglasses as well a ski and bike helmets.


rkarlin@timesunion.com 518 248 6070 @RickKarlinTU

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Originally posted by Arty:
I like Remington ammunition. I'm glad to see them here. It makes a statement.

That's a different company.

Yup: https://www.thefirearmblog.com...ion-back-full-swing/

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Remington says manufacturing will stay in New York

Boooo! Here's hoping they default on their outstanding debt, satisfy it by turning over their Ilion holdings, and lose the union labor albatross currently around their corporate neck.

They lost me a customer long ago. Having a LE line that uses different build quality than their commercial line, and making people jump through hoops to purchase is telling enough of how they regard us lowly civilians. Doubt moving to Georgia would have much change in that regard.