Nation’s Oldest Gun Maker Exits New York After 200 Years
21st February 2024
Remington, the nation’s oldest gun manufacturer, which has been located for more than 200 years in Ilion, New York, will move to LaGrange, Georgia, on March 4.
“Two hundred and eight years of history. Gone, gone,” Ilion Mayor John P. Stephens told the New York Times. “Ilion is Remington. Remington is Ilion.”
“The history and the nostalgic loss that we’re going to suffer is almost, if not bigger, than the financial loss,” Stevens added, whose father was an employee at Remington for 37 years.