Gov. Cuomo’s tough new gun law has put a target on the state’s gun makers.
Cities, counties and states from across the country have been making lucrative pitches to New York’s firearms companies, urging them to relocate. Their argument: They have a gun-friendly atmosphere, and New York does not.
“They receive solicitations . . . on almost a daily basis,” said Lawrence Kean, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group.
“CEOs have told me they could basically move their factories for free.”
Some interesting takeaways from the article:
Ruger just opened a new factory in the Carolinas, and they just this week produced their first gun there, ahead of schedule.
New York may have had to bribe Remington with an 80 million dollar tax rebate. As one commenter on this properly said, "Remember, every tax dollar paid to grabber governments makes them stronger, every tax dollar taken from them makes them weaker. Any state with an entrenched moocher population is a lost cause, better to get out while the getting’s good instead of throwing tax dollars into the hands of the foe, unless you can hurt ‘em by staying and absorbing more in resources than you spend."
Unless you are big enough to get money from the state to stay, why wouldn't you move? Ruger just showed how much benefit there is to it.
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