I make rifles, reckon the IDA would help me move my business to Ireland?

harmoniums · 26-11-2011 02:27AM #1

A few years back I manufactured firearms, specifically rifles.
This was here in the USA.
I made some money with it but ended up letting my license expire a few years back.
I've still got all the tooling and could probably get back up to line start in a few days.

I doubt I will get any actual hard technical responses on state programs, corporate liability, Tax ID stuff etc from you AH guys and girls, my question is more cultural.

If a small sporting arms company opened in your town and employed say 10 machinists, with around another 4-5 other non specialized support staff, would it be considered a good thing? Or a terrible thing to allow go on in your town?
Could I expect damning editorials in the local paper and pickets?
The profile of the place would be rather low, with no obvious branding to speak of.

thanks

Oranage2 · 26-11-2011 02:31AM

Not a chance it would be allowed happen!

C-Shore · 26-11-2011 02:31AM

I wouldn't have a problem personally.. But I would say there would be a moderate amount of resistance, depending really on the locality where you set up..

The biggest concern for most people I would think would be on the security of your premises, how likely is it someone would break in to steal them etc..

Cork24 · 26-11-2011 02:33AM

Theirs a lot of gun shops here and no bad mouth on the paper.

If u want to come to Ireland start a business and take 10 people off the dole then by all means welcome.. New business to Ireland is good business.

Once the rifles are under EU guide lines etc etc I wouldn't think their be any problem.

criticalcritic · 26-11-2011 02:34AM

Rifles are illegal to own in Ireland, so no

Dirtymurder · 26-11-2011 02:35AM

Looks like theres a few anti gun people on this thread, id say you wouldnt have a problem setting up a business BUT getting business you might find hard. The gun culture in ireland is verry different than the usa.

It wasn't me! · 26-11-2011 02:37AM

criticalcritic wrote: »

Rifles are illegal to own in Ireland, so no

This is bollocks. No they are not.

Just out of curiosity harmoniums, what sort of setup would you envisage? Local level gunsmithing? Production? Sporterising old military actions? Re-barrelling and custom work?

harmoniums · 26-11-2011 02:37AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

Not a chance it would be allowed happen!

The last firearms manufacturer of any scale I believe was in Laois, under the name Kavanagh, that was in the 70s during the height of the troubles, so if it could be done then, perhaps there is a chance.

It was a weird looking yoke, an over/under shotgun called "The Fenian"!

harmoniums · 26-11-2011 02:38AM

Dirtymurder wrote: »

Looks like theres a few anti gun people on this thread, id say you wouldnt have a problem setting up a business BUT getting business you might find hard. The gun culture in ireland is verry different than the usa.

It would be mostly for the export market

harmoniums · 26-11-2011 02:41AM

It wasn't me! wrote: »

This is bollocks. No they are not.

Just out of curiosity harmoniums, what sort of setup would you envisage? Local level gunsmithing? Production? Sporterising old military actions? Re-barrelling and custom work?

Soup to nuts, raw materials would be steel and aluminium.
Barrels are the hard part, but I've got several thousand on hand right now, so manufacture of those would be further down the road.

C-Shore · 26-11-2011 02:41AM

criticalcritic wrote: »

Rifles are illegal to own in Ireland, so no

I never knew that; obviously I would have thought they were restricted by license, but not completely illegal; learn something new everyday I suppose!

Does that law also mean they can't be manufactured for export?

Super-Rush · 26-11-2011 02:48AM

Moved from After Hours.

It wasn't me! · 26-11-2011 02:52AM

If you do get up and running, it'd be a great resource for us if you stayed in the states, since you could cater to some interesting tastes with a vastly greater array of components over there and much lower costs to find things and put them together.

Cass · 26-11-2011 03:10AM

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