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With Bushmaster Firearm’s sudden announcement last week that it will close March 31 and lay off 73 employees in the process, the property’s owner, state and local leaders are scrambling to replace one of Windham’s best-known and most successful companies. Dick Dyke, the former owner of Bushmaster who bought it out of bankruptcy in 1976 from [...] James Roe, a 64-year-old computer consultant from rural Pennsylvania, spent a recent Saturday in a Pittsburgh suburb learning about riflings, hangfires and powder charges. The gun safety class was for people seeking a concealed-firearm permit in Utah, some 1,500 miles away. Never mind that Mr. Roe has not been to Utah in 20 years and [...] “The Coyote Special.” It’s not a new Animal Planet documentary. It’s also not tonight’s chef’s choice at Hudson’s on the Bend. Rather, it’s a handgun. But not just any handgun. It’s Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc.’s newest .380 — the same model of the semi-automatic pistol that Gov. Rick Perry said he used to kill a [...] NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — Marlin Firearms Co., a 140-year-old company which made a gun that was a favorite of Annie Oakley, is closing its Connecticut plant, company officials said Friday. Workers at the plant in North Haven say they’ve been told all 265 employees will lose their jobs. Jessica Kallam, a spokeswoman with [...] |
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