Weatherby Received Warm Welcome Following Exodus From California

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Posted June 18, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Weatherby is known for making quality rifles and shotguns. For years, they produced them and sold them from their headquarters in California, despite the state’s notorious anti-gun proclivities. They weren’t the only ones making guns in rabidly anti-gun states by any stretch.

They’re also not the only company to relocation because of that environment.

Now, they’re sitting in Sheridan, Wyoming where they got a warm welcome from the locals.

Located just west of Interstate 90, Weatherby announced its move from Paso Robles, California, to Wyoming in 2018. Since then it’s been a tense time for the company’s chief executive officer, Adam Weatherby.

“Lately I feel like I’ve been a wedding coordinator, you know, planning a party,” he joked after greeting visitors and posing for photos outside the expansive facility.

“We just make guns and sell them, so this is kind of new for us,” he said.

He spoke while standing between a row of 11 conservation group booths and local food trucks as a live band played in the driveway. Youngsters walked or stood in line with cardboard antlers crowning their heads.

The event is a culmination of the company’s nationwide search for a new headquarters and place to manufacture that began in 2014, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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