Goodbye DPMS?

[Neanderthal]

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/20...rumor-day-dpms-also-remington-chopping-block/

Follow-On Rumor of the Day: DPMS Also on Remington Chopping Block
By Dan Zimmerman on May 15, 2014

Today is apparently the Day of the Long Knives around the Remington empire. Hot on the heels of Big Green’s apparent chloroforming of Advanced Armament Corp. comes word from deep within DPMS that their employees have been axed, too. Rifle production at their St. Cloud, Minnesota facility ends in September and parts production will shut down next April. All DPMS manufacturing is reportedly moving to Alabama (we assume that means Remington’s Huntsville operation). Which makes you wonder 1) what other companies are getting the bad news today (Barnes? TAPCO? Para?) and 2) when will Ilion hear that giant sucking sound of jobs moving to low tax, non-union, gun-friendly southern states?

 

[grwd]

goodbye workers, dpms is just moving to AL

 

[excat]

Goodbye overly high paid UNION workers......

 

[streak]

Does this mean the $599 dpms just went to $499

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[excat]

Does this mean the $599 dpms just went to $499

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Probably just means they make more $$, I doubt the consumer will see a reduction in price, if in fact that even was part of their reason for moving.

 

[andrsnsm]

Remington is moving out of NY to AL. If they move the DPMS line to AL from MN I would guess this is a consolidation of facilities. Should position them better financially which could result in some new product development. If Remington makes more money too there is nothing bad about that. Shareholder value is important to the future of every company.

 

[Wolf44]

MN is fast becoming / has become Mini Cali………for another variable

 

[Old Fart]

Also all the pre-move DPMS rifles will now be highly collectable and worth 4 times as much.

 

[Lightsluvr]

Also all the pre-move DPMS rifles will now be highly collectable and worth 4 times as much.

Ya think? Then I'm sitting on a gold mine...

LL

 

[Fredkrueger100]

Ya think? Then I'm sitting on a gold mine...

LL

Who ain't? Lol.