Historic Business Remington Flees New York For Georgia After 200 Years

Remington is leaving Ilion, N.Y., ‘after two centuries, abandoning upstate for a gleaming new factory in Georgia. With it goes the village’s identity.’  so wrote the New York Times.

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NY village ‘losing its soul’ as nation’s oldest gun manufacturer flees blue state for Georgia

Remington is the nation’s oldest gun manufacturer

“Two hundred and eight years of history. Gone, gone,” Ilion, New York, Mayor John P. Stephens told The New York Times. “Ilion is Remington. Remington is Ilion.”

“Two hundred and eight years of history. Gone, gone,” Ilion, New York, Mayor John P. Stephens told The New York Times. “Ilion is Remington. Remington is Ilion.”

Remington, the nation’s oldest gun manufacturer, told union officials late last year that company chiefs at RemArms, the current version of Remington Arms, made the decision to end its New York manufacturing come March. The remaining operations located in Ilion will move to Georgia, where company leaders say the firearms industry is supported and welcomed.

Residents of the New York village, which is located roughly 230 miles northwest of New York City, are bracing for the manufacturer to officially move, which some say will take part of the town’s identity with it.

A view of the Remington Arms Co., Inc. compound in the middle of Ilion, New York, on Feb. 1. The nation’s oldest gun-maker is consolidating operations in Georgia and recently announced plans to shutter the Ilion factory in early March. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

“When Remington leaves, it’s not going to be like a facility leaving, it’s going to be like part of your family has moved off,” Jim Conover, a retired Remington employee who began his career there in 1964, told The Associated Press.

A furnace operator and technician at the factory, Frank “Rusty” Brown, told the outlet that he and generations of his family worked at the facility and noted he and his wife will be out of jobs.

Frank “Rusty” Brown poses for a picture at the union office, across the street from the Remington Arms Co. compound, in Ilion, New York, on Feb. 1. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

“My mom worked there. My dad worked there. My wife works there with me now. My daughter works there with me now. My second daughter works there with me now. And my son-in-law works there,” Brown said. “So it’s a double-hit for me and my wife: two of us out of a job.”

The closure of the New York location will result in about 300 people losing their jobs in a town of roughly 7,600. The mayor of Ilion told the Daily Mail that the village is expected to lose $1 million in revenue due to the move, in addition to other local businesses taking a financial hit.

”It’s like the town is losing its soul. It’s almost like losing a family member. That’s the thing that people are struggling with, the nostalgia, the history. It feels like we are losing the identity of the town,” Stephens told the outlet.

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Kuffar

1 month ago

Remington left 50 years too late

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Patti

1 month ago

wait and see if Amazon tries to put a warehouse in this town with its crappy low paying jobs and try to convince the locals what a great idea it is.

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Eric Arthur Blair

1 month ago

Reply to  Patti

AOC will stop them. NYC is a dying city.

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VMS

1 month ago

New York is a toxic state in which to run a manufacturing plant, let alone a firearms manufacturer. The communist judges in Connecticut stung Remington for $77 million for the Sandy Hook shooting by failing to follow the federal law that exempts firearm manufacturers for injuries caused by their weapons unless the product is defective within the meaning of products liability law.

All those skilled workers are now without jobs, and many will be on unemployment. Many will leave New York for greener pastures. The city will be financially unstable for years to come, etc., all because of New York’s anti gun. And anti business climate.

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Blue

1 month ago

I think Kimber manufactures in Yonkers, NY? I wonder if they still do? I do know they manufacture in the south as well.

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Eric Arthur Blair

1 month ago

Please stop all tourism and business with the vile city of New York.

Make the lights go out on Broadway!

Now these abhorrent Marxists will hear from the American people.

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Stephen Honig

1 month ago

Someone will write a book called: The Demise of NYC. It’s actually here,but we’re like the frog who’s put in warm water and then raise the temperature.

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GWC

1 month ago

Well they kept on voting the toxic wanna-bes in to office.

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Jerome from Layton

1 month ago

We’ve all been warned. If the business proposal involves NY, CA, or IL, pass on it.

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