Inside a gun factory - PTR Industries
From Business Insider
comes this really nice photo-essay on PTR Industries.
They are located in Connecticut and because of new legislation, are moving.
Step Inside The Connecticut Gun Factory That Is Leaving The State In Protest
CEO Josh Fiorini and his gun manufacturing company PTR Industries, are right in the center of the national gun control debate.
PTR makes clones of the HK-91 semi-automatic rifle and is located in Bristol, CT. Bristol is about 45 minutes north of Newtown, where 20 children and six of their teachers were shot to death last December.
The debate grew more heated recently, when Connecticut passed the strictest gun control law in the nation on April 4th. As a response to that law, on April 9th, PTR announced its plan to leave Connecticut in an open letter to the state.
When we asked Fiorini how he felt after learning about the shootings in Newtown, he told us, while the tragedy left him and his employees devastated, he ultimately feels manufacturers are not the problem.
"I probably feel the same way an engineer at GM feels when he drives by a car accident," he said.
Connecticut is losing 42 full-time jobs and a large chunk of tax revenues. All this over a really poorly thought out law. All they are doing is disarming legal gun owners. Can't the Ct. legislators look at the numbers from Chicago to see the end-game of their actions?
Oh yeah:
PTR currently has 56,000 orders. The wait is a few years.
Talk about a free-market growth industry -- make a good product, charge an honest price and stand back...
Posted by DaveH at May 29, 2013 10:28 PM