The Mississippi Business Journal reported firearm manufacturer Talon will build a plant in Ridgeland:
Mississippi lawmakers aiming to make the state a mecca for production of firearms and firearms accessories notched their first success Friday with an announcement that startup TALON Ordnance will begin manufacturing an AR-15-style semi-automatic sporting rifle in Ridgeland.
TALON’s startup coincides with a huge upswing in demand for rifles in the AR-15 platform, whose design emulates the fully automatic assault-style rifle used by the military and law enforcement agencies. Nationwide, demand for the AR-15 has outstripped supply, causing many retail buyers to wait extended periods for delivery of the weapons....
TALON says it expects to produce the first of the tactical-style firearms by January. It expects to initially employ 10 people at its facility in the 220/Highland Colony Business Park at 106 Business Park Drive. A workforce of around 50 people is expected in the near future, according to co-founder & CEO Clay Baldwin, a Magee native and longtime Madison resident.
Baldwin said in a press statement TALON would produce premium, service-grade weapons with “100 percent made-in-the-U.S.A. parts.” Article
Of course, who can forget these histrionics from Bill Minor in this March 2013 column:
It's been a mad, mad world lately and Mississippi has been contributing more than its share to the madness....
Then comes Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn writing letters to a half dozen major gun manufacturers to locate their plants in this state. Here, he wrote, they won't be criticized to make their "products." And, of course to hire friendly Mississippians.
Gunn (isn't that poetic?) concludes his letter to CEOs of the gun makers: "We welcome you with open arms!" Those are his words, not mine. Gunn emphasizes he is speaking for ALL Mississippians in welcoming gun makers to make their home arms down here.
Forget about Dennis Rodman's showboat sortie into the frigid Korean peninsula where very few Americans have met the reclusive, plump dictator with the weird haircut. Concentrate on the Gunn gambit which came from about as far out of left field as did the bejeweled Rodman. This outlier state doesn't have to try very hard to make itself the butt of late night comedians, but using the slaughter of 20 innocent children by a gunman in a Connecticut elementary school as an economic development tool defies credulity.
The Gunn bid to woo gun factories has apparently fallen flat with firearms manufacturers, as it should. Perhaps it should be sweetened by the Republican-controlled Legislature which has been quite innovative (is that the word for it?) in making Mississippi competitive in the national mania to glorify gun "rights."
Yes, Bill, fell totally flat. Will be even funnier if more manufacturers come to Mississippi. Keep it up, Bill. The more you are wrong, the funnier your shrieks become.
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Did not Winchester Ammunition locate to Oxford and is now making ammunition there ?
Who in the name of Hell is responsible for keeping Bill's straitjacket on him at the nervous hospital? Have they not figured out that they have to keep the crayons away from him, too, or the Clarion Ledger is honor bound to publish his tongue-biting, frothing-at-the-mouth, screeching, Green Lantern underwear-donning lunacy?
Oh, sorry, that was back in March, maybe they worked those problems out. Hope they did.
and apparently ole k-stokeses is all butt hurt over this.
Who is this Bill Minor guy??
Didn't he use to cut hair at the Metro Center??
Yeah, ol Kenny is all boned over because "Dem guns be wind off up in deez Jackson skreets and be killin up all deez yungunz"....as if high end tactical AR's are the choice of 13 year old Skittle munching gangbangers. He just heard "gun" and "Mississippi" and saw an opportunity to rally the "low information career welfarers" and their allies, a'la Tom Head.
Paul used to cut hair at the Metro Center but has since moved to Barnetts.
Barnett's in Ridgeland is a clip joint.
Interesting...Ten jobs - from a start-up - like the beef plant without the subsidies? The Gov, Speaker, and other "dignitaries" show up for a presser. WOW! I guess we can expect to see Deputy Dog and Ears at another presser when the next beauty shop opens in Pearl.
Kennuff Smokes and Goofy Bill Minor belong to the same club - WHITFIELD!!
I hope they build a quality indoor firing range on the same campus. For an area full of gun owners (and gun nuts), not as many options as you'd think.
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