BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 4 months ago
TFB:
What a difference a year makes. Last June we announced that Gemtech was breaking ground on a new world headquarters. Last night we learned that in six to nine months Gemtech will no longer exist in Idaho. At a company meeting yesterday, the remaining Gemtech employees were told that the facility would close and that all business would be moved to Smith & Wesson’s headquarters in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Some manufacturers are so tone deaf it amazes me they’re still in business. S&W has been told time and again by me and literally everyone else that they need to move operations completely and with prejudice away from their current state and come South. Or West. Idaho would be fine, or somewhere in the Northwest redoubt, or South would be better.
Leaving the liberal politics behind would be a requirement, of course, but instead of doing this, S&W is buying smaller companies and moving them to Massachusetts.
Procedure: [1] Find the worst possible thing you could do to alienate your customer base, and [b] do it. If you’re dumb.
