On 7/28/14, 7:23 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
...on the Beretta move:

"Some people considered the factory a good source of jobs," said Kelly Canavan, a longtime resident
and local activist in Accokeek*, Md., the company’s home since 1977. "But a lot of other people have
been disturbed that this huge gun factory is right here, extremely close to a lot of children and
families."

Living close to a military base must be excruciatingly painful for those children and families.



You mean, like Ft. Hood in Texas?

The naval air station in Jacksonville provided the community with a
never-ending supply of intoxicated drivers, wife beaters, bar brawlers
and, of course, it was a well-known EPA toxic dump site.

The Beretta facility in Accokeek is a tightly run ship. I brought a
Beretta shotgun there for a diagnosis and had to wait in the visitors'
gatehouse separate from the main facility while a tech fixed the
firearm. You didn't get into the facility unless you had a specific
reason to do so and they knew you were coming. I was more than satisfied
to wait in the gatehouse and drink coffee with the receptionists there.
It's not that big of a facility, by the way.

I was pleased to learn recently that when Marlin moved out of New Haven
to a new facility in New York State, its QC went to hell and its rifles
spent most of their time being repaired for ftf's and worse. I read the
Marlin factory is moving down south, as soon as it can train a workforce
of rednecks how to read.

Winchester, of course, left the United States entirely and is now a
Japanese-made product. The best lever action rifles in the carbine
calibers are manufactured in Italy.