01-15-2013, 05:17 PM
bdevr Wrote:Why won't Remeniton or others leave and go to a more friendly state? Simple: Federal laws against it. The interstate transfer of firearms making machinery is forbidden. That's why places Springfiled Armory, S&W & Kahr are still locate in a state where you can't buy 2 of the 3...
I don't know about that, sig moved from Virginia to New Hampshire in 1990 an the vast majority of firearms tooling is simply precision machining equipment such as lathes and mils the only thing gun specific your likely to find is the barrel making equipment and the tools that make the frame and receivers are just CNC machines that you can order from any distributor and have delivered to any state in the union the process of making guns is not all that differt from making anything else think back to WW2 if you look at the surplus arms you can find m1 carbines made by IBM, national postal meter, Saginaw gear, quality hardware, the gm headlight plant produced the liberator pistol, singer sowing maching made a few 1911s though they are extremely rare they only made a trial run
The reason the companies don mov is it doesn't effect them the laws don't effect their production an moving would bew a big hassle and the states don't want to loose the jobs or tax revenue so the stay