Great Scott

[wingriderz]

Govonor Scott , wanting the Flashlight company maglight to move it's company from California to Florida. It was on the news tonight. Sounds like California is trying to put more restrictions on the company.Govonor Scott said bring it to Florida. That would be great for us in Florida. Plus maybe they could build some new tactical flashlights. Who dosnt own a mag light bullet proof.

 

[Jessie]

Good for Fl. Some of these states are restricting their citizens right out of jobs when they force companies to move because of those restrictions.
They're going to have a " Doh! " moment in the future.

 

[DWalt]

There are numerous reasons that many businesses are moving away from CA. I read something yesterday that the LA-Orange County area is among the top three areas in the USA for high housing costs as a percentage of wages, and some companies are leaving for other states because their employees can no longer afford to live there. Combine that with high CA city and state taxes and oppressive environmental (and other) regulations, it's a wonder that there are any businesses still there.

 

[rwsmith]

We have been hoping.......

We've been hoping the S&W and other gunmakers would move part or all of their operations to states that appreciate them. Like SC for instance. Specifically Berkeley County. We are attracting industry right and left to this area.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

When "Focus on the Family" moved from southern California to Boulder, Colorado, Their secretaries still earned California wages, and the could buy a very nice house in Colorado! (15-20 years ago), But at the same time, A friend sold $52,000 in Tulsa, Ok. that same $52,000 bought a 20% smaller home in Columbus, Ohio. All thing in real estate are.....Location, Location, Location!

Ivan

 

[Zipdog]

So now CA. has something against flashlights. Are they going to put serial numbers on the light beams? Background checks?

 

[S42N8]

So now CA. has something against flashlights. Are they going to put serial numbers on the light beams? Background checks?

3 cell max capacity. Switch safety. Low-powered (less than 100 lumens). No assault flashlights.

 

[pharmer]

So now CA. has something against flashlights. Are they going to put serial numbers on the light beams? Background checks?

They don't use "green,renewable, sustainable" energy dontcha know. Bring it here, we need jobs. Lots of skilled labor at 60% of Cali cost. Colt didn't and they're hanging by a thread. Joe

 

[Dennis]

Something about the lights can't say made in USA if a very small percentage of the light has foreign-made parts.
Saw something about it on the "WEB" the other night...
Yeah, I know...
The "WEB".

This **** has been going on in Kali for a looooong time. A lot of companies have moved out starting in late 80's at least.

 

[mrchuck]

Texas would LOVE to have you move here!!
California must split into 2 states immediately.Then again an Earthquake could solve the problem.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Texas has been quietly and not so quietly attracting business from the other states. One more oil boom will take me to the finish line.

 

[Tom S.]

Great Scott?

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Texas has been quietly and not so quietly attracting business from the other states. One more oil boom will take me to the finish line.

That oil boom better come quick-Louisiana's budget is based on $55 per barrel oil and it hasn't been anywhere neat that in a lonnnnnng time.
Quite honestly-Id like to see a spike to $150 per barrel for about 18 months-just to let me get over the finish line!

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Anthony Maglica is unhappy that California won't allow him to stamp Made in USA on his flashlights. Apparently, his products don't meet California standards for Made in USA labeling.

I have been a California manufacturer since 1955, when I opened a one-man machine shop in a rented garage. Sixty-two years later, my shop has grown to a million square feet and now employs hundreds of people. It is here that our famous Maglite machined-aluminum flashlights are designed, engineered and manufactured. From our factory in Ontario, Calif., they are exported around the world.

Nowhere but in America could somebody who started with as little as I had come as far as I have. The best way I know to show my gratitude is by keeping alive American manufacturing jobs, ones that involve the same tradecrafts on which my own success was based.
That is why my flashlights are made here, and why the great preponderance of parts and components are either made in our own factory or procured domestically—when possible, locally. But given the globalization of trade, there are some items that simply are not available, or are otherwise impractical to secure, from any domestic source. Buying a part or component abroad is something Mag Instrument does only as a last resort, and then reluctantly.

Given my commitment to keeping manufacturing in America, it seems only fair that I should be able to stamp my flashlights “Made in USA”—especially when I sell them in the very state where they are produced. But thanks to an old and obscure California statute, I am forbidden to use that label.

A state law enacted in the early 1960s forbade marking a product “Made in USA” unless every single part was domestically produced. Over the past few years the requirement for domestic content has been lowered from 100% to 95%, but that still is an impractically high bar for most American manufacturers facing the reality of a global parts-and-components market. So my company cannot sell flashlights in California with a “Made in USA” label—even though our only factory and almost all our workers are in California, and despite our strong policy of building products as American as they can be.

Fortunately, none of the other 49 states have followed California’s lead. They all use the Federal Trade Commission’s well-considered and comprehensive standard for “Made in USA” labeling. But absent federal intervention, any other state, at any time, could enact its own varying definition, continuing the process, begun by California, of turning interstate commerce into a Tower of Babel.
A bill now pending in the U.S. Senate would prevent that scenario. The Reinforcing American-Made Products Act of 2017 would make federal law and regulation, including the FTC standard, exclusive on the topic of “Made in USA” labeling for products sold in interstate or foreign commerce. That would pre-empt California’s maverick labeling statute and prevent other states from passing laws like it, which only hinder American manufacturing.

Made in California—but Not the USA? | Lux Libertas - Light and Liberty

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Who here has a Made in USA labeled flashlight? I do I do...