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Duppers

(28,258 posts)
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 09:10 PM Apr 2023

Smith & Wesson relocating headquarters to Maryville Tennessee

Gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson Brands is moving its headquarters to Blount County, and bringing $125 million and 750 jobs with it to East Tennessee.

Smith & Wesson will become Blount County's eighth-largest employer.

Recruiting one of the world's largest gun manufacturers is a regional and statewide economic win. Tennessee is home to 20 small arms and ammunition manufacturers and Smith & Wesson's arrival will make Tennessee No. 1 for employment in the industry, according to the Tennessee Department of Economic & Community Development.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/2021/09/30/smith-wesson-relocating-headquarters-maryville-tennessee/5928601001/


GUNS ARE WELCOME & without rules, even for 18yo's.



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Smith & Wesson relocating headquarters to Maryville Tennessee (Original Post) Duppers Apr 2023 OP
Guns are welcome in Tennessee, black legislators are not. Freethinker65 Apr 2023 #1
Talked with my tRump-humping brother today... Duppers Apr 2023 #3
Or logic, or reason, or common sense. OldBaldy1701E Apr 2023 #6
Perfect place for them. sinkingfeeling Apr 2023 #2
Guns -- more precious than children Blue Owl Apr 2023 #4
So they will be working for the confederacy this time during civil war redux nt yaesu Apr 2023 #5

Duppers

(28,258 posts)
3. Talked with my tRump-humping brother today...
Thu Apr 6, 2023, 10:04 PM
Apr 2023

Reason: he called to tell me our sweet uncle died.

My brother lives in Knoxville; told him we were traveling to NYC to protest Trump. Not really to protest the orange bloated asshole but to see our son who lives in the Big Apple.

Now, brother & I are no longer speaking....and, I seriously do not care. Even blocked his phone.




OldBaldy1701E

(6,477 posts)
6. Or logic, or reason, or common sense.
Fri Apr 7, 2023, 07:13 AM
Apr 2023

But greed and bigotry have a respected home in Tennessee. Now thanks to the rethugs and their supermajority, they can remove the government that says equality and replace it with the oligarchy that we now have in other red states. And, they want this for the world. There is no better reason to never, ever vote for a rethug again after this debacle. But, as Alfred Pennyworth once noted, "Some people just want to watch the world burn."

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