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Beretta Promises They Will Leave Maryland

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Beretta’s had enough of Maryland’s ever-more restrictive gun laws and announced they’ll abandon their facilities in Accokeek for a more firearms-friendly locale. From opposingviews.com: “Beretta warned that stricter gun control laws would push the company outside of state lines, but that didn’t stop Maryland legislators. Jeffrey Reh, a spokesman for Beretta who also serves as the President of Stoeger Industries under Beretta, announced that the company would begrudgingly uproot and take its business elsewhere. He said, ‘We don’t want to do this, we’re not willing to do this, but obviously this legislation has caused us a serious level of concern within our company.’ He added that Beretta paid approximately $31 million in taxes, employs 400 people, and had invested $73 million in the business over the past several decades.”

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  1. He could have got a $2000 loan but you have a very specific time to pay it back say 90 days, after which they own your stuff and no chance for you to get back. I watched a guy on Pawn Stars do it for $20000, much less than the item he put up was worth, but he was sure he’d be back in time to pay it off and he really needed the cash now…pawn shops tend to be the sleaziest characters.

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  2. I just purchased a US made 92FS. Glad I did and I’m glad they are sticking to the principles of the 2A and telling Maryland to shove it. I tried to find an email address to express my THANKS but cannot find anything. Wanted to say “Thank you” and that I LOVE my new 92FS.

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  3. So we have MagPul, HiViz, IDPA, and Beretta, all voting with their feet. I have to support them even though I feel for the people in those states. It might not phase the politicians much but it might just very well piss off a lot of registered voters.

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  4. Florida, the Gunshine State, and already home to quite a few firearms manufactories, with access to the exotic materials on the Space Coast, and at least three international ports for shipping and receiving of raw materials and product, would also welcome Beretta with open arms.

    Why stay in a State which sucks when you could go somewhere you’re more appreciated, you have a larger civilian customer base, AND you’ve got access to more and cheaper stuff and more space-age machine shops than you can shake a stick at for precision subcontract work?

    Come to Florida, Beretta. We love you long time.

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  5. Liberals have once again lost manufacturing jobs for their states. the unions gotta love that. Texas would be proud for Beretta to call it home.

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  6. Not sure this is news. The links to this site’s sources are all ~6 weeks old. No Beretta employees at MD shooters had confirmed this as if an hour or two ago.

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  7. Come to Florida, Beretta. We love you long time. 🙂
    As long as they LEAVE for free-er climates!
    This is how the Renesance started, imagine what might happen if some gun engineers got together in a free country with-out the red tape!

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  8. I wish I could go to a gunsmithing school, but there closest one is two states away. One day, perhaps. Too bad it’s not an apprenticeship thing like other trades.

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  9. Beretta please consider coming to Mississippi; we love guns, guitars, girls and good old fashioned bbq.
    My ’92 would love more company.

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    • 10-4!
      Untill Obuma outlaws Freedom Of Movement, any company (cough-Colt-Rem-Win-cough) can relocate at will; taking the tax dollars and high paying jobs with them.
      Most of those NE coast workers have never lived in the South, never met Polite PPL, never ‘et’ REAL smoked meat BBQ or crawdads and corn.
      Never even neted themselves a mess of crawdads off an old bridge at sunset,,,and seen the glory of God in each delicious mouthful of his bounty

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  10. What amazes me the most that all of this is an affront to the will of the masses. The politicians are going to have more people unprotected, less income for states, less jobs for the people, more injured, robbed, raped, and killed over a lack of forethought and insight. California, Detroit, and New York are prime examples of how Gun Restrictions are counter productive in preventing more crime. Pure willful stupidity….

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  11. I added a bolt on break/breacher (Minotaur Tactical Megalodon Shotgun Door Breacher Muzzle Break)

    http://gunvillage.com/minotaur-tactical-megalodon-shotgun-door-breacher-muzzle-break.html

    When it arrived, I noticed right away what a massive, well built piece of potentially life saving equipment this is. Who knows what kind of “tussle” you’ll be in. This thing is a very thick walled steel device, and it has vents on the sides which sliced my finger open when I installed it.

    I have taken many tactical weapons courses as a professional and as a novice. Hand to hand combat with a shotgun in your hands is a real possibility (21 foot rule) and in the absence of another round down range, possibly a non-lethal situation, or a bayonet, this breacher might just be the solution.

    You can thump with it, rake with it, jab with it. It adds another dimension to the firearm. Thinking in and out of the box…it’s a keeper.

    Oh yeah, it looks cool too.

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  12. The first time i fired .45ACP was directed at my trusty back stop tree( A big Red pine). After the 10 or so shots I heard a distinct sound of a bullet hitting the garden fence, 45 degrees to my right. Sure enough the .45 FMJ was deflected out the side of the tree somehow.

    That was the scariest learning experience I have had with a firearm.

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  13. One of the reasons the north won the civil war is because most to all of the weapons manufacturers in the country were located in the north. Now a lot of those manufacturers are being pushed to the south, just sayin’.

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  14. Never had any particular desire to visit Alabama; neutral on the subject, you might say. Now I’ve got me a desire not to.

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  15. as both a MD state resident and a native of pg county (where Beretta is/is leaving from) i say good for them. Our elected officials choose to give the middle finger to both the 2a minded residents of the state and the firearms companies located here (Beretta, LWRCI, ADCOR). You reap what you sow, i just wonder if the latter two are going to follow suit, given that they are smaller companies comparatively.

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  16. If it makes you feel any better, we’ve got lots of folks down here doing their best to tear him a new one. This is NOT a representation of our state. In fact, we’ve actually got legislation in our State Senate to strengthen gun rights in Alabama. I hate to see the publicity this guy is getting outside our state, but we’re doing our best to fight the good fight down here.

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  17. Yes, it’s an M99.

    What I could find on them says that they aren’t very accurate, like 2 moa
    It’s meant as an anti-materiel rifle though, not as a long range sniper rifle.
    So not only did they NOT get it from the US, but no one is going to pull off any Furlong-esque shots with it.

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  18. When soccer players are fighting with police equipped with riot gear…. is any game that damn important?

    The only thing the police did wrong was form the line too loosely at the beginning. Towards the end, they tightened up. As for the wanna-be peacemakers trying to get between the police and the soccer players, they needed to turn around. Grab the soccer players and push them back or down. Do not face the police and beg for patience when your teammates are running at the police.

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  19. The title of the post seems to have changed from “Fed Up, Beretta Announces They Will Leave Maryland” to ” Beretta Promises They Will Leave Maryland”.

    Do you have statement from Beretta? Curious people want to know.

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  20. > Voting with one’s feet is a luxury for those with no
    > significant extended family, career and financial attachments.
    > Or of the financially independent blog publishers.

    That’s a very left-wing point of view.

    Back when I was involved in homeowner/HOA issues, I was always told by conservatives and libertarians that if a homeowner didn’t like his HOA, he was free to move.

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  21. Your post-upgrade experience mimicks mine to a “t”. Fun when it runs, but frustrating and dangerous when it doesn’t. The mangled brass I was getting was nothing short of extraordinary.

    I’m not ready to throw in the towel just yet, though. There is a 200 rd break-in period, and there is also notes on the website about reassembly that I missed post-upgrade (there needs to be some space around the triangle charging rods). Given that I’m an early adopter, I can’t get too upset and have to think they’ll get it worked out.

    The “WTF” looks at the range are priceless, though.

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  22. It looks like it was invented so people will buy a tax stamp, I would rather buy a suppressor for a .22 that I know is going to work reliably.

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  23. One might be able to see the potential if not for all the flaws. The controls that force one to put hands in the area of the barrel is definitely a non-starter, too many potential trips to the ER just waiting to happen. It works with 10-22 mags, BUT you gotta BUY an additional gadget first. I tried to purchase when first announced, yet thankfully the factory was having issues on delivery. I say thankfully because since then not one single review which I have seen or read has fallen on the positive side. I will wait until the folks on the design crew figure out how to fix the flaws, making it safe and reliable out of the box, which should be the norm for any item-particularly a firearm.

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  24. This issue of Colt is interesting, the company is owned by some dirtbag hedge
    fund types so who can tell, its hard to predict. Colts been living on the financial
    edge for a long long time and at times its been nearly bankrupt and had to be saved by emergency infusions of cash from various places.
    Were not fighting the vietnam war anymore and colts production lines don’t run
    24/7 to supply a fighting army in the field, its not ww2 when Colt made all sorts of
    weapons .
    Colt is very vulnerable, worst of all they don’t have a gas-piston AR like many other
    makers have, take note, the SEALS used hk416’s for the OBL raid which took him
    down.
    Colt has two choices, face a boycott and lose, or give in and move and expand thier
    product line . The time of compromise is over, tush and ass kissers beware, the
    gun consumer can and will vote with thier wallet.
    Whats the big frakking deal with LE supply contracts anyhow, its window dressing , the companies do it for the exposure and either actually lose money or
    just break even. doesn’t really help the bottom line.

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  25. Okay, Mega Arms uses a nylon screw to adjust tension between upper and lower receivers, have a macinest drill and tap your lower and add a replacible nylon set screw, problem solved…about 50 bucks!!

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  26. I love it. I really do. Its utterly ridiculous, outside the box, and finally an interesting thing to stick under my rifle.

    If I had disposable income for this and a tax stamp, I’d do it in a heart beat.

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  27. I like innovation, but it’s sad to hear there’s so many problems. I wonder if the design would have worked better if it had been around a centerfire cartridge instead of 22LR? I guess that would defeat the purpose of it being a “fun” gun… though these days, I’m having more problems finding 22LR than 9mm…

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  28. I ask a simple question of you gun-grabbers out there:

    If our current myriad of gun laws are insufficient, what makes you think a new gun-ban law will suddenly be sufficient?

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  29. Why doesn’t he come here to Chicago and spike gun control football? We’ve had many of the same restrictions that CT just passed for 30+ years now. It’s working out so well that we’ve had over 80 dead (3+ Sandy Hooks) with an additional 300+ shot and wounded so far this year.

    Oh, that’s right… no one gives a rat’s @$$ about a bunch of dead, black, male gangbangers. They’re not exploitable.

    Illustrating Chicago’s Murders, Homicides, Violence and Idiocy at heyjackass.com

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  30. Griffin was a fraud. People weren’t reacting to him because he looked ‘black.’ They were reacting to him because he looked like a nut who had painted his face.

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  31. L. Neil Smith is a well known author, who always uses his first initial. (He’s known as El Neil in Libertarian circles). Please use the proper attribution if you are going to copy his article.

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  32. I had hoped that Ronnia would be packin by now…but noooo. I like them drop dead gorgeous. The beauty of going up to a “looker” is that when she slaps your face 180 the next one will bring it right in line, ax me how I know. I’m going with Ronnia even though she is shirley lacking, Randy

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  33. Sorry, I’m so late posting, but I’ve been enjoying my life in Florida, as Beretta would. Moving here is a no brainer. Besides, when you want to take a vacation, you are already here. Come on down Beretta, we would love to have you! By the way, I already own several Beretta products, love ’em!

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  34. My family member is involved in commercial real estate here in Arizona,where Dillon Precison,and Ruger currently reside.Word within the industry here is that Remington in Ilion New York is looking for another place to land as well.Born and raised in n Jersey and southern New York,I have fond memories of hunting all types of large and small game with the fathers and sons from the family.Talking to old friends still back there tell me that’s all but gone.Fortunatly I moved to AZ.and had the opportunity to raise my sons the same way I was.Keep it up New York you may end up being the TIE DIE capital of the world,and remember to keep hydrated I’ve heard that’s hard work!!!!

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  35. Is it me, or is the lead ban not a huge deal?

    I use steel shot for bird hunting because it’s required by law on the land I hunt, and Barnes makes some damn good all-copper rounds for putting down most things with 4 legs.

    So… no more slugs/buckshot?

    What am I missing that really takes away the ability to hunt? I’m curious. I don’t support this by any means, but I’m not seeing where this is a tragedy so much.

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  36. Well I’ll be danged! Perhaps the phone calls, faxes, and donated money actually did some good. While CA is still mostly lost, it isn’t completely so. Thanks to everyone fighting the good fight, in whatever anti-gun state they may be in, and for those living in free states who support our cause.

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