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On September 30 th Boston Globe article about Smith and Wesson moving to Tennessee and get a better understanding why this country is so f***ed up from these liberals
That's where I'm looking, maybe they have a RnD slot open.Oddly enough, Maryville and nearby Alcoa have popped up as relocation sites in the last week. I'm a bit on the ancient side, but maybe they'll be looking for part time help!
The dumb criminals that run Springfield killed the Golden Goose and now their pissed that there are no more eggs to steal. Springfield is the Detroit of Massachusetts.Headline of Boston Globe’s article on this:
And its closing line:
Ever see their 19th century era forge? good luck moving that....
Yesterday Howie was saying that a Wesson was a classmate.A little history of Daniel Wesson’s summer house in central Massachusetts.
Planned move by Smith & Wesson a reminder of Daniel Wesson's mansions in Central Mass.
I hope those 750 relocated employees say "Tennessee is 100x better than MA. We should've moved years ago!"
You see a similar pattern in NY with Remington and the reality is that to the pols in power, western MA is like upstate NY -- they care about the big city of the state and its money, to them everything else may as well not exist.This is going to have a significant effect in terms of job loss for Springfield, a city that really can't afford that. Sure, some will remain, but I'm hearing at least 750 jobs heading south. Whatever you think of MA as being not a gun friendly state, this is bad news for a lot of families, and the local vendors who supply this factory.
Sorry...........but one song comes to mind. Way to go Massachusetts.
It cost money to hire new machinist and skill workers, it not something that can be done overnight. I guess that they will slowwly move all them operations out of ma , but it be a slow move, take years.They are keeping their mass location open, so it isn't a total win.
Lol no they didn't. But S&W was sick of listening to threats and this and that..... not to mention the absolute dog shit conditions for manufacturing in MA.So they made it illegal to manufacture AR 15 rifle‘s in Massachusetts?
“Lawmakers decided to close that loophole and make it illegal to manufacture one of Smith & Wesson’s most popular products.”
Edit: I see they can still make them only if there sold to LE and Military only.
I wonder what that means for a smaller shops that manufacture parts for rifles that will be civilian owned?
I only worked dials and DRO’s. Smashing shit would have earned you the door. Now that aside I worked in a shop where the owner was really good at smashing shit at full speed. His “wall of shame” was massive!!!It cost money to hire new machinist and skill workers, it not something that can be done overnight. I guess that they will slowwly move all them operations out of ma , but it be a slow move, take years.
They hired a bunch of newbies machinist at work, they set machine on fire twice already and constanlly wrecking stuff lol.
Many of the assembly line jobs are temps no need to relocate them. Also most of Customer Service is also temps. It is easy to train people so assemble AR's and M&P pistols. It is also easy to train machine operators and material handlers. You need to try and keep engineers and CNC programers even the tool department is mostly CNC the day of the cutter grinder is on its way out. S&W is planning to complete the move over the year.
S&W revolvers are forged and parts are CNC the assembly no longer needs fitting S&W let all the fitters/gun smiths go back around 2011 when they changed to all CNC revolver line
The 1911's are made in Maine using MIM parts and forged CNC frames and slides no fitting/smithing involved although still more difficult to assemble then an M&P however still no gun smithing involved, 22 pistols are also made in Maine.
The AR assembly line uses very basic tools not very complicated AR parts are sourced from other venders.
I mean.... if you worked there you shoudve been in fear every dayThis is going to have a significant effect in terms of job loss for Springfield, a city that really can't afford that. Sure, some will remain, but I'm hearing at least 750 jobs heading south. Whatever you think of MA as being not a gun friendly state, this is bad news for a lot of families, and the local vendors who supply this factory.