The Connecticut River Valley from Hartford, Ct. to Springfield, Mass. has been a manufacturing and machining center since the Industrial Revolution. Textile mills, sewing machines, guns, you name it.
The Massachusetts Legislature is stupid, but not stupid enough to lose S&W, a business with $425 million in annual sales and 900 employees. The Commonwealth just approved a $6 million tax incentive for S&W, and S&W is going to add another 225 jobs at its 50 acre site in Springfield, Mass. This coincides with the move of Thompson Center from NH to Mass.
So while the State Legislature may be anti-gun, they're not anti-business.
And although I'm happy to see the company stay here and thrive, it burns me that S&W happily takes the taxpayers' money but won't make the effort to get all their products on the Massachusetts-approved sales list.
The Legislature could probably make that a stipulation, but they won't because they're giving a tax-incentive to a company whose products they don't want their own citizens to own.
Business and politics as usual. Screw the legitimate local gun-owner.
Tinpig