{"id":4122,"date":"2009-02-03T06:27:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T11:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2009-02-01T22:36:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T03:36:53","slug":"manufacturing-jobs-we-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4122","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Jobs We Can Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one company is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hk-usa.com\/news.html\">expanding manufacturing in America:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Firearms maker Heckler &#038; Koch announced today that it will manufacture two new rifle designs in a newly opened US factory in 2009. The new rifles, the MR556 and MR762, are inspired and influenced by the HK416 and HK417, two highly acclaimed models designed and produced by Heckler &#038; Koch\u2019s Oberndorf, Germany plant.The rifles will be produced at a new HK manufacturing facility in Newington, New Hampshire. The facility is co-located within an existing 70,000 square foot facility. HK began manufacturing pistols in the U.S. facility in late 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve reached a major milestone in our objective to establish a production presence in the US,&#8221; said Wayne Weber, executive vice president of the US business unit of Heckler &#038; Koch. \u201cThe new HK45 pistol is the first HK product officially \u2018Made in the USA\u2019. It is our goal to strategically transfer production of select HK products to the U.S., with the HK45 Compact being the next product to come off the U.S. production line and shortly thereafter, the MR series rifles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if the Obama Administration is as proud of this expansion of manufacturing jobs as it should be?<\/p>\n<p>Because he&#8217;s largely responsible for the demand.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=us\/1-0&#038;fp=49831eb0070dbe74&#038;ei=jdaDSYzsNJKgMtrqkIcJ&#038;url=http%3A\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/article\/20090106\/NEWS01\/901060327\/1006&#038;cid=1290678312&#038;sig2=I-LPipLQwkYMXve7GCve_g&#038;usg=AFQjCNHssIJnY5OAMGTd9hc8JahP7D1xtw\">He was, in fact, the &#8220;stimulus<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one company is expanding manufacturing in America: Firearms maker Heckler &#038; Koch announced today that it will manufacture two new rifle designs in a newly opened US factory in 2009. The new rifles, the MR556 and MR762, are inspired and influenced by the HK416 and HK417, two highly acclaimed models designed and produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}