Gun maker Smith & Wesson Brands Inc. will relocate its headquarters to Tennessee next year due to proposed firearms legislation in its home state of Massachusetts.
MA: Seeks to completely ban the manufacture of a product line that accounts for the vast majority of Smith and Wessons’s profits
Smith and Wesson: Moves to a red state taking millions of dollars in tax revenue and thousands of jobs with it.
MA: surprised face
I mean, how could MA propose such legislation and not expect this to happen? Obviously production is going to move somewhere where these guns are legal. S&W isn’t just going to give up a huge portion of its profits because MA told them “guns are bad”. In a few years, I’m sure the Springfield plant will be closed entirely or downsized by a huge percentage. I’m sure exactly what that dump of a city needs right now is a huge employer bailing out on them.
The straw that broke the camel's back was when they were ordered by the Commonwealth to refer to the .40S&W round as a "trans-caliber", not 9MM but just falls short of a .45 ACP.
This "Commonwealth" is the Commiefornia of the east coast. I used to think it was Connecticut. Even the "Live Free or Die" state is being polluted by the migration of the unicorns of utopia.
It's all Facebooks fault.............
Unfortunately I see the same thing more and more in the south too. People move here from CA and the northeast, then complain how much it sucked in those places, and how much better it is here. Then they vote for exactly the same type of people they voted for in CA or the northeast and junk up our state too.
The Westfield gunmaker with 400 local employees says its biggest challenge is hiring enough people.
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Short sighted jerks. Savage CEO doesn't see the next round of legislation going after "sniper" rifles. THAT will hurt savage arms. This state sucks
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