Which manufacturers were knocked out by Sandy

As of yesterday (Wed Oct 31) Kimber was closed due to a lack of power.

kahr was closed, personal issues.

I wonder about Bersa. They are in Wanamassa, NJ. I ordered a magazine for my Thunder 22 on Monday and got an automated email stating my order had been received, and other standard info. I dont know where their servers are, but they are still up and running. I cant believe they escaped damage. Wanamassa is right on the coast.

I wonder why so many firearm factories are in the North? Just curious.

Just seems that the South States are usually more accepting.

Bersa/Eagle Imports now has a message on their websight saying they are closed due to loss of power, and general damage. I hope things improve quickly for them, and everyone in that region that is suffering

Kimber closed today, too. Some of the members of my range work at the Kimber Yonkers facility, and one of them was at the range both yesterday and today.
I made the guy laugh when I said they should just open up the Meprolight room and let the glow illuminate their workstations...

CZ's credit processing was screwed up for a couple days.

wgaynor said:

I wonder why so many firearm factories are in the North? Just curious.

Just seems that the South States are usually more accepting.

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Methinks it's a legacy from when those states weren't quite so strict. Plus as I understand it, some of those factories make or made only longarms, which aren't quite as regulated as handuns.

The industrialization of the South, Midwest, and West is a relatively recent phenomenon. Firearms manufacturing in the United States began where the rest of industry was - in the Northeast. It stayed there because that's where the infrastructure and workforce were located and because there was no particular reason to move. In more recent times, with the growth of the Sun Belt and the decline of the Northeast (both of which have many causes), new firearms businesses are more likely to start up outside of the Northeast and some existing companies may move or open additional facilities elsewhere, such as Ruger's factory in Arizona, which opened in 1987.

And Remington Arms,our oldest gun manufacturer, founded in 1816 in Connecticut,now has it's HQ's in Madison,North Carolina.

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but all of their (gun) manufacturing facilities are in NY and KY. The NC headquarters is an office complex and the result of lower corporate Taxes in NC (at least at the time they moved to Madison, don't know about now). Oh how i wish they'd move some of their production capacity to a state i'm willing to live in!!

also historical point Eliphalet started the company in Illion, NY. many many gun companies made their start and flourished in CT but Remington wasn't among them

From where I stand, KY is one of the finest places to live and work. I was not born or raised here, but I will live the rest of my life here. Doublestar firearms are manufactured nearby in Winchester KY, the US's largest auto manufacturing plant is in Georgetown KY and Bud'sgunshop.com/Gun Warehouse is about 3 miles from the house. It has everything I need, right in the heart of horse country.

I lived in Lexington KY for three years when my company moved me there. KY is VERY gun friendly, and had very low energy costs, and a pretty good tax structure. Its not the best in the "south" but OK. Tennessee is a bit better. Anyway, back to guns. I think it would behove many of the gun manufacturing to move to states in the south like KY. They are also "Right to Work" states and work rules are easier, and wages more in line with the task.

Colt will probably move some or all of its manufacturing to FL at some point.

I tried to order a Desantis holster by phone 2days ago. Couldn't get through.

Gun shop owner informed me on Wed that Henry is closed until further notice.

The workforce for a lot of industrial things has been more centralized in the North previously resulting in it being where many firearm companies put their factories. You already had a large workforced trained to do the type of things required.
There is also politically some benefit to having jobs dependent on firearm manufacture in states that are less supportive, they are less likely to be as anti gun if big local dollars and part of the economy is tied to firearms, as well as historical and traiditional companies dating back as far as many once did there.



But yes now the south is the better place for wage slaves, right to work states where Unions have not established benefit requirements for industrial positions. Plus friendlier to the product, I do see most new industrial companies being located in the South.
Of course large industry does come with its own price, the NE has had pollution problems as well, in many cases covered up until the cancer rates of some areas went through the roof and it turned out the local industry wasn't following the law and industrial chemicals were in the local water table or enviornment. It also has the biggest issue with acid rain destroying forests (swamps in the south would be even more vulnerable) although part of that is the weather patterns bringing the air from much of the country trhough the Northeast.
Just take a look at some of the biggest current acknowledged problems:
http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/superfund/navigate.do
The Sun Belt being a bit more naive to such things and will let business operate more freely, I see a lot of those issues repeating themselves.




As for Sandy, it is really a demonstration of how vulnerable the infrastructure is in a place they do not expect storms. Sandy was in fact far more mild than what Florida and to a lesser extent the Gulf deals with almost every year. New York and Jersey just don't get thier underbuilt structures destroyed very often so had a lot more whose time came from something that was barely a category 1 and quickly fizzled to much less.

As for Sandy, it is really a demonstration of how vulnerable the infrastructure is in a place they do not expect storms. Sandy was in fact far more mild than what Florida and to a lesser extent the Gulf deals with almost every year. New York and Jersey just don't get thier underbuilt structures destroyed very often so had a lot more whose time came from something that was barely a category 1 and quickly fizzled to much less.

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Wife and I were talking about this last night. Our conclusion was that if a storm akin to either of the last two that caused Us to evacuate (we're an hour SE of Houston just a few miles inland) Ike and Rita, Much less a legit Monster like Katrina, were to hit the where Sandy did... the death toll and overall destruction and property loss would make New Orleans in '05 look like a bad superbowl party.
Not to mention that without the reminder we gulf coast folks get everytime we watch a storm develop, not very many folks up around NYC have proper flood and storm/hurricane coverage because they simply don't think stuff like that will happen.

How about Beretta in MD?