http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/remington-ceo-gun-law-impacted-alabama-expansion-decision-blog-entry-1.2013256

But But, Crusty Rusty said it ain't so!

Remington CEO: SAFE Act impacted decision to expand--in Alabama
BY Ken Lovett
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, November 17, 2014, 5:55 AM
Remington Arms Company, in Ilion Mike Groll/ASSOCIATED PRESS Remington Arms Company, in Ilion

Here is the expanded version of the second item from my "Albany Insider" column from Monday's editions:

Remington Arms has confirmed what many already long suspected — New York’s tough gun control laws played a role in the upstate gun manufacturer’s decision to expand outside the state.

Remington, which has operated in New York State since 1816, shifted 100 jobs down south in August. Another 126 people were laid off last week as a result of a decline in gun sales.

The company says one reason behind its decision to open a new plant in Alabama rather than expand in New York was “state policies affecting use of our products,” Remington Outdoor Company CEO George Kollitides wrote to some upstate officials Oct. 20.

The statement was taken by some as a direct shot at a tough gun control measure enacted by New York in early 2013 in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shootings.

Indeed, one part of the gun control measure, also known as the SAFE Act, banned AR-15 rifles in New York — the very gun Remington made at its plant in upstate Ilion.

Those assault guns will now be made in Alabama.

Kollitides also said workforce quality, business environment, tax and economic incentives, and existing infrastructure impacted the decision to open a plant in Alabama.

“What the letter is really saying to us is we need to take action as a state to solidify and recognize the businesses we already have here and make it hospitable for them to stay,” said Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, a Republican who represents the upstate district that is home to Remington and who received the letter.

“I don’t think Remington was even given the courtesy of a phone call or a discussion when the whole (gun legislation) discussions were going on,” she added.

A Remington spokesman did not return calls for comment.

A Cuomo administration source denied that it played a role in Remington’s departure, saying the company “is consolidating from states all across the country.”

“The company has repeatedly stated that’s driven by national consumer trends,” the source said. “If anything, local politicians constantly playing politics only hurts."

New Yorker Against Gun Violence Executive Director Leah Gunn Barrett said she believes Remington’s decisions are based more on New York’s business climate than its gun control laws.

But regardless, she said, public safety should trump economic decisions.

Critics “love to use the New York SAFE Act as a whipping boy, but let’s face it, that law is keeping New Yorkers safe and keeping New York communities safe and our kids safe and guns out of the wrong hands, to me that’s more important,” she said

I mean, really?  Cuomo administration source denies what Remington says about their own company?  Still in disbelief people voted for Cuomo.

I hope Remington doesn't sell squat to LE dept's in NYS either.  Make them for the pain. Start issuing cuomo's detail whistles and billy clubs.

I always feel like I've spotted a unicorn when you post in a thread

Krusty is a NYS government shill.

Dollars to donuts when he's laid off he'll hit Rem with a lawsuit and be backed by downstate lawyers for free.   Rem knows this that's why Krusty is still there.

On one hand, GOOD.

On the other... thanks for waiting 'til after the election to make this statement, asshole.

"Assault Guns"??? FU Ken Lovett

Letter to Editor in the Syracuse Post Standard appeared today from NYAGV hack got a huge center piece place in the Opinion section of today's print paper, babbling on as to all the reasons Remington jobs left the area but for the unSAFE act.  I doubt they will provide such a large section for a response from the NYSRPA?

I just realized that they originally ran this bullshit article on 13 November, and have republished it in today's print version!  More Post Standard bullshit - what a shill excuse of a newspaper.

Fuck him

Maybe Krusty needs an anti-SAFE gathering outside his home.

That woman at the end of the article needs to be corrected.

I have to believe that someone like that is one of those folks who rants all sorts of anti-gun stuff  and then one day you hear they used a gun to protect themselves

I love this part right here:

"I could go on and on. It is alleged that 17 manufacturers close their plants in New York state each and every day. We know for a fact that this is not because of the SAFE Act. None of these plant closings have anything to do with the SAFE Act."

So that makes it okay that NYS loses 17 plants a day?  

The author's Facebook Page here.

Most regrettable was the departure of the AR15.com t-shirt plant.