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Debate Erupts Over Remington Plant Closure

By Tom Knighton

RemArms, which makes Remington firearms, is shutting down its New York plant. This isn’t news because, well, we’ve covered it already.

More than two centuries in one place is a feat, but now it’s at an end.

What isn’t at an end, though, is debate over just why RemArms is moving its operation completely.

Republican leaders, including U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik and state Sen. Mark Walczyk, who both represent the village of Ilion, have blamed New York’s “unconstitutional gun-grab policies,” as Stefanik said, for the company’s closure of the plant.

RemArms LLC — which has owned Remington Arms’ firearms manufacturing since the original company declared bankruptcy in 2020 — announced that the closure of the Ilion plant will come with them moving the New York manufacturing operations to their Georgia headquarters.

“RemArms is excited to expand our facilities in Georgia, a state that not only welcomes business but enthusiastically supports and welcomes companies in the firearms industry,” the company said in an emailed statement.

Read Full Article Here…(bearingarms.com)


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