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Family. Brown, 59, grew up across the street from Remington Arms, raised on his parents’ Remington paychecks. He graduated from the Ilion high school in 1982 and went to work at the factory in 1995.
Young blacksmith Eliphalet Remington built a barrel in Ilion in 1816, then walked to Utica to have it rifled. The legend is that he used it to place high in a shooting contest, attracting interest ...
Remington, the nation’s oldest gunmaker, was founded in Ilion, producing firearms there since 1816. Over the years, the facility has seen layoffs, temporary closures and bankruptcy, but through ...
Ilion is one of only twelve villages in New York still incorporated under a charter, the others having incorporated or re-incorporated under the provisions of Village Law. [8] In December 2023 RemArms LLC announced that the Remington Arms factory located in the village will be permanently closed in March 2024, eliminating 300 jobs. [9]
The president of United Mine Workers Local 717, which represented workers at Ilion, expressed fears about the future of the New York facility and blamed the NY SAFE Act for the company's decision to favor Alabama over New York. [26] Subsequently, about 100 Remington jobs were shifted from New York to Alabama. [27]
RemArms obtained a Federal Firearms License in early 2021, and resumed production of some firearms at the former-Remington Arms manufacturing facility in Ilion, New York. [11] The company announced its launch in September 2021, via a video from its CEO. [12]
ILION, N.Y. (AP) — Remington began here two centuries ago and generations of workers have turned out rifles and shotguns at the massive firearms factory in the middle of this blue-collar village ...
RemArms, formerly Remington Arms Company, informed union officials Thursday that it plans to close the gun manufacturing facility in Ilion, N.Y., this coming March, the Observer-Dispatch reported.