A long-standing gun factory in New York’s Mohawk Valley is leaving the Empire State and relocating to Georgia, taking away a more than 200-year-old staple in the town of Ilion.
Remington, the nation’s oldest gun manufacturer, told union officials last year that the company chiefs at RemArms, its current name, would end manufacturing in New York in March. The remaining operations in Ilion will relocate to Georgia, a state company leaders believe “supports and welcomes” the firearm industry — delivering a massive blow to the town so intertwined with the factory.
“Two hundred and eight years of history. Gone, gone,” Ilion Mayor John P. Stephens said to the New York Times. “Ilion is Remington. Remington is Ilion.”
“The history and the nostalgic loss that we’re going to
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