This is a common way to attract manufacturers and create jobs for your state. Do you see something wrong with this?

...what those bad politicians in the Northeast did. Passing laws that are unfriendly to the most popular type of rifle in the country and the firearm used least in murders and assaults is heinous. Then refusing to counter offers from other states to keep people working just for the sake of political posturing is insulting.



I also can't imagine why those companies would pay attention to the bottom line and do something shocking like controlling costs.



I mean really? Acting surprised that your head hurts after you hit it on the wall is one thing. Being surprised that the wall is just going on about its business is well amusing.

Its a shame the Northeast, which used to be heavy with builders, is losing so many job oppurtunities due to politics.

"Beretta Joins the Southward Migration of Major Manufacturing

On July 27, 2014, Beretta announced it is moving all manufacturing operations from MD southward to TN. They are far from the first to go. Kahr Arms left NY for PA. PTR Industries left CT and American Tactical Imports left NY – both for SC. And, Remington Arms, O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Ruger, Colt, Stag Arms announced expansions in southern states, including Alabama, Florida, and Texas."

It’s not an uncommon theme in 2014. In 2013, we saw the rise of massive legislation in CT, NY, and MD. Several small to mid-sized companies made moves that garnered at least local headlines. The larger manufacturers, including Beretta, started announcing expansions and individual product shifts. But 2014 has now become a year for shifting entire manufacturing operations out of the northeast to primarily southern states."

Next thing you know auto manufacturers, printing companies and sub-assembly fabricators will want to get in on the deal.

Can the Mother Jones editors really be that stupid and clueless, or do they assume their readership is?

Gotta be one or the other, based on their steady flow of provably dumb articles related to firearms.

But anyway, we've been told right here on DU, by one of your co-hosts in Castle Bansalot that it's a good thing when a firearms company moves out of state. Never mind the hundred of skilled labor/tax paying jobs going away and the businesses they support.

In fact the phrase used was; "Good riddance to the makers of those death spewers, Nobody needs those kinds of jobs anyway and many more people will move to those states because they don't make guns there anymore".

Ah, I love what passes for gun controller economic logic.

Tax incentives were being used to lure businesses. It helps when your jobs and tax revenue are not wanted in your home state. Their loss.

"We don't want their murderous industries!" we were told unceasingly. Now we're being told the loss of tax receipts and jobs is bad.

The ethics on this seem confused -- or, at least, the pretend ethicists are.

If guns are involved (real or fake), it's evil.
Solutions to gun problems (real or imaginary) are evil.
The results of solutions to gun problems (real or imaginary) are evil... even if they're formulated and implemented by gun-control.

The gun, gun owner, gun lobby, gun maker and gun seller is/are always wrong and always to blame.

You left out the part that claims that a majority of voters from 'Alabama to Tennesee' are against it.

Because a majority of voters from ''Alabama to Tennesee' aren't actually against it and no such claim was made?

Oh, I see.