Beretta to open plant in Tennessee
Old Trooper and ohio send us a link to the news that Beretta has decided that they’re moving at least some of their plants from gun grabbing Maryland to more friendly Tennessee.
Beretta USA officials along with Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty announced today the company will expand its U.S. operations by building a new firearms manufacturing plant in the Gallatin Industrial Park. Beretta, a global manufacturer of high-quality sporting and military firearms, will invest $45 million in a state-of-the-art manufacturing and R&D facility. Beretta will create 300 new Tennessee jobs. The company is expected to complete construction on the facility this year.
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“From the moment when we started to consider a location outside of the State of Maryland for our manufacturing expansion, Governor Haslam and his economic development team did an excellent job demonstrating the benefits of doing business in Tennessee. We are convinced we could find no better place than Tennessee to establish our new manufacturing enterprise. We look forward to building operations here and being part of your community for many years to come,” said Franco Gussalli Beretta, Vice President and Managing Director of Fabbrica D Armi S.p.A and Executive Vice President of Beretta USA.
Initially, Beretta had planned on moving to Virginia, but changed their minds when gun-grabbing Terry McAullife, the carpetbagger from Syracuse, won the Virginia governorship. So Tennessee wins. I love this story because McAullife and O’Malley both get the bird.
Category: Guns
Now they need to stop selling to Kalifornia and Maryland
@1 JiGB, lots of folks in MD (can’t speak for CA, but I’m pretty sure it’s similar)are 2A supporters and either stuck here because of family situations or they prefer to stand and fight. Seems because of the first reason I’m doing the second. We’re doing our part on the political front, and watching the various 2A cases plod through the judicial system very carefully. Check out marylandshallissue.com and see.
PS, I applaud Beretta’s choice- it allows them to send a pointed message to Annapolis and without harming their folks employed here.
Also, my Px4 Compact fits me like a glove, and shoots way better than I can. Practice practice practice!
AW1Ed. Been there. Done that. Ain’t doing it no more. I voted with my feet. Actually, it was with a truck–west on 70, and right over the Potomac. That ‘stay and fight’ shit got old and life is short.
y’know, when I lived in Maryland, I hated it so much – long waiting times to buy a gun, had to drive like 40 miles from Ft. Meade to shoot a decent caliber rifle – I moved over 2000 miles to make damn sure I was out of that place. Only redeeming things in the whole state were a gunsmith in Glen Burnie who did .45 throat jobs to die for and the old Annapolis Crab House. Any state that keeps electing Babs Mikulski is seriously fucked up.
my apologies for the language in the preceding; should have tempered that.
Hey, wanna shock? What’s it cost to register a car in MD? 100? 150? More? In WV it’s $30. Emissions inspection? Not here. Just wipers, lights, and tires and the sticker is on the windshield. DC area and Balto metro crime? Baltimore alone has 14 murders this year. There was one murder in Charleston last year. One. In the capitol city. Want to take your piece and blast something on your own propertyy? Go for it. In MD, you get SWAT–and a drone. Screw that place.
@2 Most of California is pro-gun, but somehow San Francisco, LA, and Berkeley control the state without any kind of majority, except a majority of cameras.
Crap! I live near Gallatin right now, but I am relocating to northern Kentucky next month to start a new job. That sucks, I would have enjoyed seeing them open up in Gallatin. Oh, well, my in laws still live near there, I’ll have to visit them frequently to see the progress.
@6, David- I’m thinking if tempered language was a qualifier, my comments would rarely make it through moderation…If i owe any body an apology for rough language, it could happen…
I have wanted to plan a retirement, still 20+ years out, near a beach. Problem I keep seeing is all the bullshit rules near the beaches. So what, I have to drive 9 hours- I don’t have to bloody live there.
I do wish more manufacturers would move here…
Me, I moved to the Florida Gulf Coast. I’m up in the Panhandle, lots of Military Retirees as well as AD, it’s “Red State USA” in this neck of the woods. I wish Beretta would have considered moving to this neck of the woods! Hey Curt, y’oughtta check out NW Florida, not a bad place at all to live, we’re just having the shittiest Winter Storm we’ve had in about 20 years right now, but it’ll be in the 70s by this weekend, and the fishing is great!
@11 – I moved to Eastern Lower Alabama too!!! Gulf Breeze no less – to get away from the horror that was NY.
@2 – I feel your pain. At the very least, they should stop selling to any LEO group…
I’m still pissed that Thompson-Center moved from my town to Springfield, MA when S&W bought them out a few years back. Ironic, no doubt.
But then again, I can carry whatever the hell I want in NH. Good luck doing that in MA.
Well, it looks like Beretta dropped . . . a sock. I’ll take them as being serious about their future when the shoe drops – and they start planning relocation of their existing MD facilities and corporate offices. As well as publicly refusing to do business with government entities in jurisdictions where their products are illegal.
Sure. That would be a good idea. All the gun-grabbers insist on background checks and ID verification? Here’s one to think about.
All gun manufacturers, dealers, and shop owners and sellers, start building a gun owner’s list — a list of po-po. When a person comes in to buy a gun, ask for ID – their police badge or ID. Then verify to see if they’re telling the truth. Then charge them double the normal retail that would be asked of a non-po-po citizen. Ditto for the LEOs and other three-letter gubbment organizations.
This would go hand-in-glove with the po-po’s own concept of themselves as “special ones”.