Town built on guns ponders future after Remington plant sale A Remington firearms factory has dominated Ilion, New York, for generations, but now some residents are looking ahead with uncertaintyILION, N.Y. -- Workers at the sprawling Remington factory in this upstate New York village took pride in a local gunmaking tradition stretching back to the days of flintlock rifles. We can’t sit around and wait for forever.”It’s common for people here to say that Ilion is Remington and Remington is Ilion. Company founder Eliphalet Remington started making flintlock rifles on his father's forge near here in 1816, and the Ilion factory site dates to 1828. Union signs reading "United We Stand with Remington Workers” are in the windows of local businesses that sell everything from pizza slices to steel-toed boots. The plant, which employed around 1,200 people eight years ago, was down recently to about 600 union workers plus an estimated 100 or so salaried workers.

Source: ABC News November 01, 2020 13:41 UTC