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What do ya'll know about the Winchester plant closing? Any ideas about how it will affect the firearms culture in the US and pricing/marketshare for the other manufacturers?
Winchester Plant Closes
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Chawbaccer
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What's this about Winchester?
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It prob'ly isn't the same thing but I can't help but think of WalMart.
WalMart started by promoting all of their "Made in USA" products. Now, 98% of their products are made in CHINA. So, they become the big kid on the block, run out Kmart and everyone else and have a pretty good Monopoly on everday products. Now when they decide to get nasty, the Chinese can simply close the doors and starve us out until we give them what they want.
So...Winchester is gone, the icon of Wild America, rough and tough and all that. GLock, H&K, SIG, Beretta other major producers of firearms are "out of town" while Smith & Wesson are unpredictable.
When China does withold goods and services, the only defense we'll have is MOSSBERG...
WalMart started by promoting all of their "Made in USA" products. Now, 98% of their products are made in CHINA. So, they become the big kid on the block, run out Kmart and everyone else and have a pretty good Monopoly on everday products. Now when they decide to get nasty, the Chinese can simply close the doors and starve us out until we give them what they want.
So...Winchester is gone, the icon of Wild America, rough and tough and all that. GLock, H&K, SIG, Beretta other major producers of firearms are "out of town" while Smith & Wesson are unpredictable.
When China does withold goods and services, the only defense we'll have is MOSSBERG...
HankB
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Owned by the Belgians, weren't they?
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Yeh, but John Wayne didn't know nothing about no "Belgians"...Pilgrim. Americans are cowboys, Belgians are donuts or some other such thing.
I understand why you are concerned, but that's not how world economy works. If China decides to play hardball, corporate buyers will simply take their business and hard currency elsewhere.
India, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Mexico, and God knows how many more developing countries are all eager to take China's place. Granted that these countries arent' as competitive as China is right now, but it is still far from having to pay $50 for a pair of plastic slippers at Walmart.
RUBZERK
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So i guess its time to start stock pilling the wwb amma
misANTHrope
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No reason to, unless there's reason to believe that Wal-Mart will stop carrying it sometime soon. US Repeating Arms is closing the New Haven, CT plant where 70s and 94s were made. Winchester-branded ammo is produced by a totally separate entity (Olin), and isn't going anywhere.
Aguila Blanca
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Folks, the "Winchester" factory in New Haven, Connecticut, ceased to exist as Winchester about 20 or more years ago. "Winchester" is today nothing but a brand name owned by Olin Corporation. The ammunition operation is completely separate from the former rifle operation in New Haven.
The New Haven rifle factory was shut down by Winchester Olin Mathieson Corporation a couple of decades ago. A start-up company called US Repeating Arms Corporation (USRAC) took over the plant and has been building rifles, which they sold as Winchester by licensing the name from Olin. USRAC at some point was bought by FN Herstal, which is the corporate entity that decided to pull the plug on the operation.
Winchester ammunition is not endangered by the closure of the USRAC factory in Connecticut. As to rifles, don't forget that the Marlin factory is in North Haven, Connecticut, just a couple of miles up the Interstate from the USRAC factory.
The New Haven rifle factory was shut down by Winchester Olin Mathieson Corporation a couple of decades ago. A start-up company called US Repeating Arms Corporation (USRAC) took over the plant and has been building rifles, which they sold as Winchester by licensing the name from Olin. USRAC at some point was bought by FN Herstal, which is the corporate entity that decided to pull the plug on the operation.
Winchester ammunition is not endangered by the closure of the USRAC factory in Connecticut. As to rifles, don't forget that the Marlin factory is in North Haven, Connecticut, just a couple of miles up the Interstate from the USRAC factory.
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