Gun control laws and an anti-gun enviroment in Maryland have prompted
Beretta USA to move its manufacturing operations from MD to TN. For those not familiar with the company, it is the principle supplier of hand guns to the US military.
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Beretta U.S.A. announced Tuesday that company concerns over a strict gun-control law enacted in Maryland last year have made it necessary to move its weapons making out of the state to Tennessee. The well-known gun maker said it will move to a new production facility it is building in the Nashville suburb of Gallatin that is set to open in mid-2015.
Beretta general manager Jeff Cooper said that a sweeping gun-control measure that was passed last year initially contained provisions that would have prohibited the Italian gun maker from being able to produce, store or even import into Maryland the products that the company sells around the world. While the legislation was changed to remove some of those provisions, Cooper said the possibility that such restrictions could be reinstated left the company worried about maintaining a firearm-making factory in Maryland.
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And the moral of the story, for other states and for the federal government, is that a primary role of the government in creating jobs is providing a stable and predictable regulatory environment.
As a historic foot note, Al Gore would have won the presidency in 2000 if he had carried his home state of Tennessee. Many analysts at the time concluded that Gore's strong position on gun control cost him that state's electoral votes.
