The American economy is still struggling to establish consistent forward momentum in 2013, but one segment that’s experiencing “rapid fire” growth is the gun industry.
Sales are through the roof and there seems to be no slowing demand … meaning gun manufacturers are likely to be a solid employment bet for the foreseeable future. Also given the anti-gun laws being passed by dark blue states in the American Northeast, gun manufacturers are looking at moving to friendlier business climates.
That’s great … capitalism at work. At least on the surface …
Problems begin when elected officials and government bureaucrats enter the equation … as they are in the courtship of Connecticut-based PTR Industries, whose co-owner Josh Fiorini recently gave an interview with a South Carolina newspaper discussing the possibility of locating 100 low income jobs in the Palmetto State over the next 2-3 years.
“Company executives met with state and local economic development officials as well as the area’s political leaders and found them all accommodating,” The (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) Sun News reported. “(Fiorni) said a round of golf at the Dunes Club, which he enjoyed, was part of the recruiting trip.”
Of course they found state leaders “accommodating.” After all this is South Carolina, where we tax money from existing individuals and businesses is habitually used to bribe other companies to come here.
Oh … and we wonder who paid for that round of golf?
Anyway, how has South Carolina’s command economic strategy worked out for us so far? Not well. In fact our state’s labor participation rate is currently at an all-time low.
Anyway … we would love to see PTR and numerous other gun manufacturers locate in the Palmetto State. These companies are clearly no longer wanted in the kneejerk Northeast, and as U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan has repeatedly stated South Carolina should welcome them with open arms.
What would we love to see even more than that, though? A competitive business climate … one which didn’t rely on robbing taxpayers to subsidize “economic development.”
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Agreed Sic One. Give them tax breaks, not tax incentives(aka tax payer money).
Agreed Sic One. Give them tax breaks, not tax incentives(aka tax payer money).
Most of what I’ve seen regarding state gun control laws pertains to buying/selling firearms, not really manufacturing them. Yes, the assault weapons ban and magazine capacity laws would affect manufacturing, but those were only on a national scale if I’m not mistaken. Did I miss something?
A lot of manufacturers are pulling out of their home states for implementing stricter gun laws. Magpul for example in CO. Their reasoning is residents of the state can’t even buy some of the products their own state is producing.
A lot of manufacturers (period for emphasis) are pulling out of their home states for one reason: to milk tax and corporate incentives from the interstate relocation “race-to-the-bottom” contest that has been operating for the past 15-20 years.
Only home-grown fools invest in the locations where they now exist. Better to join the game of “musical plants” instead.
Agreed. Or more to the point, why should the states that want to restrict or outlaw guns sales profit on the manufacture of same?
Agreed. Or more to the point, why should the states that want to restrict or outlaw guns sales profit on the manufacture of same?
Most of what I’ve seen regarding state gun control laws pertains to buying/selling firearms, not really manufacturing them. Yes, the assault weapons ban and magazine capacity laws would affect manufacturing, but those were only on a national scale if I’m not mistaken. Did I miss something?
A lot of manufacturers are pulling out of their home states for implementing stricter gun laws. Magpul for example in CO. Their reasoning is residents of the state can’t even buy some of the products their own state is producing.
A lot of manufacturers (period for emphasis) are pulling out of their home states for one reason: to milk tax and corporate incentives from the interstate relocation “race-to-the-bottom” contest that has been operating for the past 15-20 years.
Only home-grown fools invest in the locations where they now exist. Better to join the game of “musical plants” instead.
Agreed. Or more to the point, why should the states that want to restrict or outlaw guns sales profit on the manufacture of same?
Low income jobs???..
What about No Income Jobs: as in the real WRITER or Intelligent Thinker FITS Ignorant @$$ Won’t Hire.
Maybe these gun fellas could hook up with Boeing. Boeing could install a gun under every seat in its planes. Passengers would then have choices,
Die of smoke inhalation, die from fire, wait for the burning plane to smack the ground or reach under your seat and have a 38 Burpie
Could make for some great commercials
Maybe these gun fellas could hook up with Boeing. Boeing could install a gun under every seat in its planes. Passengers would then have choices,
Die of smoke inhalation, die from fire, wait for the burning plane to smack the ground or reach under your seat and have a 38 Burpie
Could make for some great commercials
What FITS hates: No matter how Obama tries to put his boot on the neck of American enterprise, we persevere…
And South Carolina DESERVES to prosper from Constitutional Freedom as much, if not more. than any state.
FITS problem is: Haley is running circles around Sanford in promoting SC. And any new jobs, just bring more shame on Sanford, who was busy recruiting a “Job” of a different sort on the Argentinian Booty Trail…
Attacking South Carolina boosts Sanford in FITS’ and Sanford’s mind. And like the Hokey-Pokey, promoting a narcissistic Trust Fund Charlatan is: ‘What it’s all about’ where FITS is concerned….
$6 an hour morons making guns. Oh well, at least some of the European makers are accurate.
$6 an hour morons making guns. Oh well, at least some of the European makers are accurate.
The Gun Industry needs tax breaks like they need a hole in the head . . .
The Gun Industry needs tax breaks like they need a hole in the head . . .
The more guns that a guy owns is in direct proportion to the smallness of his penis.
Since women represent the fastest growing segment of new gun buyers, what does that say about them?
The more guns that a guy owns is in direct proportion to the smallness of his penis.
Since women represent the fastest growing segment of new gun buyers, what does that say about them?