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Thursday, May 09, 2013  For the first time since its passage, Ilion-based gun manufacturer Remington Arms, calls NY Safe Act unconstitutional.

Friday, March 08, 2013  A New York congressman says Remington Arms has been awarded a nearly $80 million contract from the Pentagon to produce sniper rifles at the company's Mohawk Valley plant.

Friday, March 08, 2013  There’s encouraging news for Ilion; Remington Arms told officials it plans to invest $20 million into its facility.

Thursday, January 31, 2013  Could New York’s new gun law force the Remington Arms company to move out of Ilion?

Tuesday, January 15, 2013  People in the village of Ilion, home to gun manufacturer Remington Arms, react to gun control legislation which could impact their local economy.

Thursday, December 27, 2012  New York has invested nearly $6 million over the past three years subsidizing the upstate factory that makes legal firearms as well as the semiautomatic rifles like those used to kill 20 children in Connecticut and two firefighters outside Rochester.

Thursday, September 23, 2010  A firearms manufacturer in Central New York has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from the U.S. Army to upgrade thousands of sniper rifles.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010  Mayors, police chiefs and prosecutors lobbied Tuesday for legislation requiring semiautomatic handguns made and sold in New York to "microstamp" unique identifying information on spent bullet casings, but the Senate failed later to pass it.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010  About 100 new jobs are expected within the next year at a Mohawk Valley firearms manufacturing plant scheduled for a nearly $6 million expansion project.