ILION, N.Y. (AP) — A gun manufacturing facility in upstate New York with a historical past stretching again to the nineteenth century is scheduled to shut in March, in accordance with a letter from the corporate to union officers.
RemArms, the present model of Remington Arms, will shut its facility within the Mohawk Valley village of Ilion round March 4, in accordance with the letter despatched Thursday. The letter stated the corporate “didn’t arrive at this determination evenly,” according to the Observer-Dispatch of Utica.
The plant at the moment employs about 270 employees, in accordance with union officers.
An e-mail in search of affirmation was despatched to RemArms on Saturday.
Remington, the nation’s oldest gun maker, started making flintlock rifles within the area in 1816. The manufacturing facility web site within the village dates to 1828, with lots of the present buildings constructed early within the twentieth century.
Extra lately, the corporate confronted short-term closures in Ilion, chapter and authorized strain over the Sandy Hook college bloodbath. The present firm now not makes the Bushmaster AR-15 rifles used to kill 20 first-graders and 6 educators within the Sandy Hook capturing in Connecticut in 2012.
Buyers doing enterprise because the Roundhill Group bought the Remington-branded gun-making enterprise, together with operations in Ilion and Lenoir Metropolis, Tennessee for $13 million. House owners introduced plans in 2021 to maneuver the corporate’s headquarters to Georgia.
Union officers known as the information this week disappointing.
“The employees in Ilion enabled RemArms to rise from the ashes of the Remington Arms chapter in 2020-21,” United Mine Employees of America Worldwide President Cecil E. Robert stated in a ready assertion. “With out these employees and their dedication to producing the most effective firearms on the planet, this firm merely wouldn’t exist.”
