R.I.P. Scout26
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.
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.
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.
That is all. *expletive deleted*ck you all, eat *expletive deleted*it, and die in a fire. I have considered writing here a long parting section dedicated to each poster, but I have decided, at length, against it. *expletive deleted*ck you all and Hail Satan.
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.
*wishes to own a Marlin 1895 in .45-70 someday *
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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.
As a resident of Connecticut during tax season I can certainly understand the desire to get the hell out of here.
The only reason Marlin would have been going under would be due to bad/terrible management.
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.
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NEVADA, Nevada, Nevada!!!! Please, o please, o please!!!!!
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!