Long time gun maker Beretta, makers of the M9 military pistol, is leaving Maryland to protest that states anti 2nd Amendment stance. Good for them. Let them find another manufacturer willing to bring in 400+ jobs.
What do you need a militia for? You make it sound like we are in Syria or one of those countries that have dictators. We already have a national guard and an army. And as to Beretta leaving the state of Maryland, it is not because they are protesting the anti 2nd amendment. They are moving because they do not want to pay good wages and would rather go to where the labor is cheap like over seas. Beretta is not the first to fly the coup, thousands of companies for the last two decades have been going to China or India for the cheap labor.
You must not be in MD. Or, you must not be a MD voter. Or, you must not be a taxpayer in MD. Or, you must not care as much about America's malaise under Barack O' Bama (BOB) as you do about BOB himself. You are new here so I'll leave it at that.
Someone will take their place; hopefully a company who doesn't manufacture guns. Too bad they didn't leave the country altogether.
I'm going to save this thread and make you eat crow when Beretta announces which STATE it's moving to, not country.
Name one gun maker that went to China. None is who. Norinco that is made in China is no longer allowed to import to the US.
Interesting article form a few days after the OP was posted. Despite threats, Beretta plans to stay in Maryland for now Maryland's largest gun manufacturer has decided not to leave the state just yet. Beretta USA threatened to abandon its home on the Potomac if Maryland passed a strict new gun-control law, but after the law was signed the company announced that its operations would remain in Prince George's County for now. However, Beretta added, it would look elsewhere for future expansions. Beretta and another Maryland gun maker have taken a wait-and-see approach to leaving the state, balancing the risk of a customer backlash against the cost and difficulty of a possible move, while keeping up with unprecedented demand for guns of all kinds. Many Americans, afraid that the government is poised to restrict the purchase of firearms, have been snapping them up. In Maryland, applications for gun purchases are rolling in three times faster than last year, according to state police. "The average guy is thinking, 'Oh, wow, if I want a Bushmaster assault rifle, I better get one now,'" said James Bryant, an analyst for First Research. "A lot of people don't know the ins and outs of the rules. They're rushing out to buy something because they don't know if they can tomorrow." Even before the December mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that sparked nationwide debate on gun control, firearm sales nationwide had grown by 5.7 percent between 2007 and 2011, according to a October 2012 report by IBISWorld. "We're now seeing sales that are unlike anything we've seen before," said Nima Samadi, a gun industry analyst for IBISWorld. Maryland's new law bans the sale of 45 types of assault weapons and their copy-cats, and limits magazines for all guns to 10 bullets, among many other new provisions. As the debate progressed in Annapolis, leaders in at least seven other states courted Maryland companies with promises of a better business climate and possible tax breaks. And a state senator for an eighth — Utah — last week filed a bill aimed at soliciting Beretta to move there. Those states' leaders not only make a political statement but position their states for a piece of a surging industry fueled by fear of new gun control laws. Analysts estimate that Beretta, a 500-year-old, family-owned Italian company, has about $220 million in U.S. sales annually, including $150 million a year under a contract to supply the standard-issue M9 pistol to the military. About 300 people work at the company's Accokeek plant, where the pistols have been manufactured since the 1980s. Under Maryland's new law, the civilian version of the M9, which uses a 15-round magazine, along with the assault-style rifles the company makes elsewhere, could not be sold in Maryland gun shops. In a statement sent to The Baltimore Sun last week, Jeffrey K. Reh, Beretta USA board member and general counsel, said the company would not let the new law interrupt production for its military contract. Although there are no plans to halt operations in Maryland, Reh said the company still is evaluating whether to expand three other operations here.
Thats a nice news release to appease its workforce. Money says as soon as a new facilty location is located for "expansion", they are gone. Hopefully to Florida, like Colt.
I suggest they use the empty factory to make body bags for the increase in unarmed crime victims around the country.
Take a negative and make it into a positive; more jobs created for companies who make body bags and caskets, florists will get more business as will funeral homes and the local newspaper.
http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/...d-after-gov-mandates-strict-gun-control-laws/ Beretta Leaving Maryland After Gov. Mandates Strict Gun Control Laws May 19, 2013 10:23am PST One thing you can say with absolute certainty about the big gun manufacturers is that, unlike many other American companies, they stand by their principles and are as good as their word. Beretta, which is the worlds oldest firearms manufacturer, promised that, if Maryland passed its strict (and almost certainly ineffectual) post-Sandy Hook gun control laws, Beretta would pack its bags and leave the state. On Friday, Maryland Governor Martin OMalley signed into law the states comprehensive new gun control laws. The new laws, the stated purpose of which is to save lives, ban some assault weapons (whatever the heck gun grabbers think those imaginary weapons are), limits magazine capacity to ten rounds, and requires mandatory fingerprinting for gun purchase. The first two prohibitions prove definitely that Maryland has no interest in saving lives. If it did, it would have paid attention to the fact that the Department of Justice has issued a report conceding that crime goes down when legal gun ownership goes up. Moreover, theres no evidence that an arbitrary ten-round limit benefits anyone but the bad guys. http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/beretta-leaves-maryland-following-stricter-gun-laws Beretta Leaves Maryland Because of Stricter Gun Laws http://blog.berettausa.com/bid/292160/Response-to-Gov-O-Malley-s-signature-of-SB281-Your-Gun-Rights Response to Gov. O'Malley's signature of SB281 - Your Gun Rights http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...up-beretta-promises-they-will-leave-maryland/ Beretta Promises They Will Leave Maryland http://wolbbaltimore.com/2002982/beretta-factory-moving-out-of-maryland-leaves-others-concerned/ Beretta Factory Moving Out Of Maryland Leaves Others Concerned http://www.rightwingnews.com/guns/b...-to-leave-maryland-over-new-gun-control-laws/ Beretta: It Looks Like Well Have To Leave Maryland Over New Gun http://weare1776.org/4344/gun-control/beretta-leaving-maryland-over-gun-politics/ Beretta Leaving Maryland over Gun Politics You need to do two things, Otco, show where Beretta said anything about moving to a different country and the second thing is to show that their moving is over anything else but politics. And to answer your question of, ""What do you need a militia for?""", the answer of course is found in the Second Amendment, .......or don't you support the Bill of Rights??? Now, you have ran off at the mouth with the typical Union line, so back up your mouth!!! And are you another one of those that insist that the rich "pay their fair share"""??? Of course you nor any of the ones that keep shouting that silly slogan have EVER came out with what their "fair share" is. Did you ever do the math, Octo?? Wages are roughly 10% of a Corporations cost. And you think that the shipping, manufacturing, then shipping the finished product back is cheap??? Here we have up top a 38% Corporate tax, in China I believe their top rate is 25%. Hey, Octo, 13% more than the wages they would be paying their help here. If you would bother ever looking more than on the surface you might find that our dear government is running the Corporations out of the states with their fool taxes.
