Call to Stiffen Laws Worries Town Built by Guns
This is the town that Remington built.
Almost 200 years ago, a young man named Eliphalet Remington Jr. forged his first rifle barrel at his father’s ironworks here in the Mohawk Valley. These days, the Remington Arms factory in this village, midway between Albany and Syracuse, is one of the few large manufacturers still prospering in a part of upstate New York that was once filled with them.
But now residents of Ilion, a community whose history and economy are indelibly linked to one of America’s more celebrated gunmakers, are starting to worry about Remington’s future. The recent mass shootings at a screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Colorado and at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin have galvanized advocates of tougher gun laws in Albany, and Remington has made it clear that such laws could prompt it to leave New York for a more sympathetic state.
While elsewhere the debate over gun control includes talk of balancing constitutional rights with public safety, here residents are most concerned with a little-discussed element of the gun industry: economics.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/nyregion/calls-for-stricter-gun-laws-worry-ilion-ny-built-by-remington.html?pagewanted=all
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Teach the NRA a lesson!
You don't need all those highly skilled union machinist jobs and their apprentice training programs in your state or town.
Pass some nice restrictive gun laws to show the voters and taxpayers, (many of whom will be leaving shortly), how serious you'd like to be about violence.
Then, when the tax revenue falls drastically, wonder out loud why the tax base fell apart. Couldn't be because you drove another major manufacturer out of the state, must be that evil NRA again.
When you have to close a school, library or firehouse or two blame the NRA. That'll work.
