{"id":2484,"date":"2013-03-08T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/03\/08\/this-doesnt-make-sense-to-me\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:13","slug":"this-doesnt-make-sense-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"This Doesn&#8217;t Make Sense To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14065,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/AP3b7de6df8e68451fae3e6ca74056c0ff.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/AP3b7de6df8e68451fae3e6ca74056c0ff.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14066,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wktv.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/Officials-optimistic-about-the-future-of-Remington-in-Ilion-196185591.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wktv.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/officials-optimistic-about-the-future-of-remington-in-ilion-196185591.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14067,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wktv.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/Mohawk-Valley-state-legislators-meet-with-Remington-Arms-195880751.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wktv.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/mohawk-valley-state-legislators-meet-with-remington-arms-195880751.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14068,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/campl.us\\\/n9gV&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/photon.cam\\\/?from=campl.us&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP3b7de6df8e68451fae3e6ca74056c0ff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remington Arms is planning to invest $20 million<\/a> in an upgrade to its Ilion, New York plant. The news comes from local politicians who had a meeting on Wednesday with the company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Local media outlets report that three senators and three Assembly<br \/>\nmembers met with Remington officials on Wednesday to discuss what they<br \/>\ncould do to ensure the company keeps its plant in the Herkimer County<br \/>\nvillage of Ilion, where Remington employs about 1,200 people.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report goes on to say that Remington themselves has no comment on the news.<\/p>\n<p>Local news station <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wktv.com\/news\/local\/Officials-optimistic-about-the-future-of-Remington-in-Ilion-196185591.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WKTV Utica has more on the story<\/a>. The story of the meeting of the New York legislators with senior officials from Remington Arms was the lead story on their evening broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wktv.com\/news\/local\/Mohawk-Valley-state-legislators-meet-with-Remington-Arms-195880751.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The senior officials involved <\/a>were Otto Weigl, senior vice president government and legislative affairs,<br \/>\nJonathan Sprole, general counsel, and Paul Merz, Ilion plant manager. This meeting is balanced out by a meeting between Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) and Freedom Group CEO George Kollitides in Austin, Texas. Perry <a href=\"http:\/\/campl.us\/n9gV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted a picture of himself with Kollitides<\/a> while holding what appears to be a Remington Defense AR-15 and wearing a Remington jacket on March 1st.<\/p>\n<p>As I said in the headline, it doesn&#8217;t make sense for Remington to invest money in plant and equipment upgrades to the Ilion plant given the NY SAFE law and the anti-gun fervor of New York&#8217;s Gov. Andrew Cuomo. That said, it could be used as a bargaining chip with the industrial and economic development teams of other states that are seeking to have the plant move to their state.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that it isn&#8217;t easy to relocate a plant of the size of the Remington plant in Ilion. While building a new plant in another state or moving the machinery wouldn&#8217;t be hard,&nbsp; it would be hard to replicate the workforce. I could see Remington moving the AR, pistol, and semi-auto rifle production out of that plant and leaving the shotgun and bolt-action rifle manufacturing there. In a way that would make sense as the pistol production could be shifted to the Para USA plant in North Carolina and the AR and other semi-auto production could go to a new plant anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>As with all of these things, we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that Remington Arms is planning to invest $20 million in an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2984,215,3246,295,216,2735,604],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freedom-group","tag-ilion-plant","tag-investments","tag-new-york","tag-remington-arms","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8923,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}