The local government in New York offered 10 years of tax breaks in exchange for the restart and upgrades.
The new owners recently restarted operations there, calling back more than 200 workers who had been laid off.
Phil Smith, a spokesperson for the United Mine Workers of America, which represents some workers at a factory in Ilion, said the union had no information about whether workers in New York would be affected. The state will also pay to train workers, but declined to detail the entire incentive package, saying it was not complete yet. Remington could claim various state tax breaks, including an income tax credit allowing it to annually deduct $3,000 per job from state income taxes, up to $12.8 million over five years, as long as workers make at least $28,000 a year.
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He said local governments would offer property tax abatements, plus utility and infrastructure improvements. Scott Malone, the economic development director for the city of LaGrange, said Remington has already secured at least one building in the city, and will operate from a combination of new and renovated facilities. 'I am a proud owner of some of Remington´s first-class product, and now, I am excited to welcome them to their new home in the Peach State.' 'Georgia´s firearms industry is responsible for thousands of jobs and millions of dollars of investment in our communities,' Kemp said in a statement. Brian Kemp famously pointed a shotgun at another person in a campaign commercial when the Republican was seeking his current office in 2018. 'We are very excited to come to Georgia, a state that not only welcomes business but enthusiastically supports and welcomes companies in the firearms industry,' Remington CEO Ken D´Arcy said in a statement.
Gunmakers have been leaving their traditional home bases in the northeast as laws become more hostile toward guns and moving to more politically welcoming settings in the South and West. The current company no longer makes the Bushmaster AR-15 rifles used to kill 20 first-graders and six educators in the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut in 2012. It swelled into a firearms conglomerate, but faced slumping sales, complaints about quality, and legal pressure over the Sandy Hook school massacre. Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816. Investors doing business as the Roundhill Group purchased the Remington-branded gun-making business, including operations in Ilion, New York, and Lenoir City, Tennessee, for $13 million.