Why Remington, Beretta, Ruger, S&W, Are All Leaving the Northeast

“A couple of years ago, Smith & Wesson sold the land on Roosevelt Avenue next to their Springfield, MA, factory, that they had been holding for forty-plus years, the land that was their room for expansion. (It now hosts the offices of a grocery chain). Nobody picked up on that, but to us it looks like [S&W saying] we might grow someday, but not here.”