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No more Winchester guns?
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Posted by jdemaris on March 18, 2006 at 05:49:53 from (66.218.23.153):
I don't consider this off-topic. I've shot many a deer with my Winchester Model 70, and dragged them home with my Deere tractor.
I've always had high-regard for the older pre-1964 Winchester guns - although when it comes to lever-actions, I like Marlins better. They shoot well, look nice, and are a piece of history just like some old d*mn tractor.
I just heard a little news-blurb on the radio - it was casually mentioned like it was "no big deal." They said Winchester is closing down - the factory being somewhere in New England - CT or Mass. It was also mentioned that Winchester is owned by a company in Belgium.
Last year I heard something similar about Remington - but I think that was just for a specific factory and perhaps not the entire company. A few years further back, the Ithaca gun company folded. Years back, the Ithaca "Deerslayer" was one of the most popular guns in my area.
I've read that, at least part of the problem with producing guns is all the law-suits in the United States. Same mentality as cigarettes, SUVs, etc. I guess nobody CHOSES to smoke cigarettes, nobody DRIVES SUVs (mind of their own?), and with guns - I guess they load themselves, and then go around shooting people. I guess I better start watching mine more closely.
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