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Ruger Expanding Manufacturing in NC
Good news for the industry, and increased firearm availability for us shooters, as Ruger announces a new manufacturing facility in Mayoden, NC. Evidently, Ruger is not feeling the love in New England...
Ruger to make arms in Mayodan - News-Record.com: Rockingham County
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What is most interesting to me about this is that this is a true expansion, not a relocation. They are not closing one of their other two manufacturing plants, but rather opening a third one. Evidently Ruger sees room for real growth in the firearms manufacturing business.
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07-08-2013, 11:35 PM
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Come on
Any arms manufacturers feel alienated? Come on south, boys.
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This makes me proud to be from NC and I hope Ruger finds success here in the Tar Heel state. We also have Marlin Firearms, Remington, H&R, PARA, and others. They should feel right at home ...
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I thought Freedom Arms Group only had headquarters/offices in Madison NC?
I was unaware the manufactured anything here.
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What is most interesting to me about this is that this is a true expansion, not a relocation. They are not closing one of their other two manufacturing plants, but rather opening a third one. Evidently Ruger sees room for real growth in the firearms manufacturing business.
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They could still "relocate" in the future; maybe they are keeping their plans under wraps until a later date so they don't lose any current employees. I work for a large company that would probably do this so my view is somewhat jaded. I wonder how the size of this plant compares to the other two, especially the one in the NE.
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We always need more boat anchors!
There is no indication, either way that they will be making arms or not at this facility. Ruger does a lot of investment casting for overpriced parts- like anchors.
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One of our county commissioners has put feelers out to several firearms manufacturers, and apparently Colt and another company are looking. It is said that Colt "might" open up a facility at the old Ford Motor Co. Lorain, OH assembly plant with approx. 800 to 1,000 employees. That would be great.
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Ruger Corporate HQ is in CT, but their actual manufacturing plants are in New Hampshire and Prescott, AZ. Both NH and AZ are pretty gun friendly, so I don't know that they'd be interested in closing either facility.
With demand for firearms increasing greatly, it's not surprising that they are building a new plant.
They might be interested in moving corporate out of CT, though. I know if I were running Ruger, I would.
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07-09-2013, 10:54 AM
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Local area newspaper had a 'short' 2" column buried on page 4 or 5. The paper stands on the wrong side of the road!
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