Marlin Firearms to close next year

[Silver Bullet]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hGdPLmmpsEk0M-aK4NVxVXPK1WTAD9EMG9N80

NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — Marlin Firearms Co., a 140-year-old company which made a gun that was a favorite of Annie Oakley, is closing its Connecticut plant, company officials said Friday.
Workers at the plant in North Haven say they've been told all 265 employees will lose their jobs.
Jessica Kallam, a spokeswoman with Madison, N.C.'s Remington Arms Co. Inc., which owns Marlin, said the Connecticut plant will close by June 2011 and employees would be offered severance and help finding jobs. She said Marlin is relocating its manufacturing operations to an undetermined site.
Kallam could not confirm if all employees in Connecticut are losing their jobs.
She read a company statement that says Freedom Group, which owns Remington, must reduce its costs to remain competitive.
"Although long term prospects of the business look positive, economic factors beyond Freedom Group's control related to increasing costs and pricing pressures within the firearms industry are impacting the entire Freedom Group of companies," the statement said.
Remington Arms bought Marlin for nearly $42 million in 2007.
Marlin's Web site says John Marlin opened the company in 1870 in New Haven after having worked at the Colt plant in Hartford during the Civil War. The company says its lever action 22 repeater was a favorite gun of Annie Oakley.

Thanks, Remington.  Why'd you buy them if they're not profitable ?

Actually, I have my fingers crossed that Marlin will be relocated elsewhere in the U.S., and that Remington is acting as savior.

[Balog]

CT is a union state. I've heard they're just moving to a right to work state. Seems like a good move to me. Union strangling your business? Go somewhere with competition.

[Silver Bullet]

Sorry about the misleading subject line.  I copied the headline from the news story.  It is accurate, but it also implies that the company is going out of business, which may not be the case. 

[wmenorr67]

CT is a union state. I've heard they're just moving to a right to work state. Seems like a good move to me. Union strangling your business? Go somewhere with competition.

Hell let them come to Tulsa, Oklahoma.  We are a right to work state and if the pay is competitive I will apply for a job.

[darius]

I bought a Remington brand pellet gun yesterday but it is made by Crosman. Huh.   

As civilian firearms go I guess Remington is ok but I haven't seen one with the quality of my old M1 Garand.  That old girl is built for the long haul.  Mine has a new barrel and was rebuilt in an armory somewhere.  It supposedly was something that came back from Korea when they adopted a later rifle.

[lupinus]

As I understand it, they are pulling up stakes and moving (most likely) to NC.

Which makes plenty of sense to me.

[Gowen]

CT is a union state. I've heard they're just moving to a right to work state. Seems like a good move to me. Union strangling your business? Go somewhere with competition.

NEVADA, Nevada, Nevada!!!!  Please, o please, o please!!!!!

[Silver Bullet]

Socialists states must loathe decentralization.  It means they have to ... have to ... compete!   

[Viking]

Sorry about the misleading subject line.  I copied the headline from the news story.  It is accurate, but it also implies that the company is going out of business, which may not be the case. 

I hope so.
*wishes to own a Marlin 1895 in .45-70 someday *

[RevDisk]

CT is a union state. I've heard they're just moving to a right to work state. Seems like a good move to me. Union strangling your business? Go somewhere with competition.

Lot of CT companies are "off-shoring" to Pennsylvania.  Close enough that management can drive in a day, far enough that the unions are too lazy to drive there.   

Yay

[BridgeRunner]

*wishes to own a Marlin 1895 in .45-70 someday *

That was the first centerfire rifle I ever fired.  Fun times.   

[makattak]

Oooo... here's hoping for Virginia.

[Devonai]

As a resident of Connecticut during tax season I can certainly understand the desire to get the hell out of here.

[sanglant]

http://www.thehighroad.us/showthread.php?t=417222
http://www.thehighroad.us/showthread.php?t=417230
 

[Silver Bullet]

http://www.thehighroad.us/showthread.php?t=417222
http://www.thehighroad.us/showthread.php?t=417230
 

Some fella in your first link really nailed it:

I wouldn't be too hasty about boycotting Remington. It's possible that Marlin was going under, and that Remington's plans for them will save them, in one form or another.

 

[RevDisk]

As a resident of Connecticut during tax season I can certainly understand the desire to get the hell out of here.

A sub-entity of the company you work for did exactly that.  Moved part of their operations from CT to PA.  CT union labor, environmental laws and high taxes is the direct reason I currently have my job.  Thanks!

[RoadKingLarry]

The only reason Marlin would have been going under would be due to bad/terrible management. They decided to make rifles no one was asking for and neglect the models that are always in high demand and short supply.
I sure hope they continue to make rifles in the US. I have 5 Marlins in my safe and still want more. If they move off shore I'll never buy another new one.

[Paddy2010]

Of course Marlin is going out of business. It's all part of the plan.  They've been gobbled up by international corporate interests whose goal is to disarm Americans.  Wake up people!!  It's not Repubs vs. Dems.  They both work together for their common benefit while putting on a show for the rubes.  Don't be distracted.  Take our country back.

[Silver Bullet]

The only reason Marlin would have been going under would be due to bad/terrible management.

I can think of other reasons.  Maybe their cost of production was too high ?  Maybe the state taxes put them at a competitive disadvantage ?  Maybe state laws requiring environmental requirements made costs too difficult relative to other companies/countries ?

I'm not against environmental standards, I'm against Americans losing their jobs having to compete against countries who don't have the same environmental standards.

[S. Williamson]

Of course Marlin is going out of business. It's all part of the plan.  They've been gobbled up by international corporate interests whose goal is to disarm Americans.  Wake up people!!  It's not Repubs vs. Dems.  They both work together for their common benefit while putting on a show for the rubes.  Don't be distracted.  Take our country back.

AH HAAHAHAHAHA!!!

[280plus]

I know it ain't cheap to keep employees around these parts.

[41magsnub]

Of course Marlin is going out of business. It's all part of the plan.  They've been gobbled up by international corporate interests whose goal is to disarm Americans.  Wake up people!!  It's not Repubs vs. Dems.  They both work together for their common benefit while putting on a show for the rubes.  Don't be distracted.  Take our country back.

You forgot to call everybody sheeple!

I seriously doubt this has any larger political significance, I'm sure Remington/Cerberus is simply consolidating MFG resources while at the same time getting out from underneath a union.

[Doggy Daddy]

NEVADA, Nevada, Nevada!!!!  Please, o please, o please!!!!!

Ahhhh... That would be like coolness on a stick!   

DD

[darius]

A sub-entity of the company you work for did exactly that.  Moved part of their operations from CT to PA.  CT union labor, environmental laws and high taxes is the direct reason I currently have my job.  Thanks!

I can't believe that Penn is not a strong union state. 

[AmbulanceDriver]

Yeah, but this thread does remind me that I want a long range thumper in a caliber that starts with .45-something....   :)