“Made In America, Or Not Made At All” says the Henry Repeating Arms logo. And now, they could change it if they wanted, to “Made In Wisconsin,” because the company has just committed to moving all of their production to the Badger State.
Henry Repeating Arms @ TFB:
So long, Bayonne, New Jersey!
The move comes as Henry pulls up stakes on its production in Bayonne, New Jersey, just the latest of a long string of firearms factories shut down in the northeastern states, moving to the southeast or in this case, the midwest.
Henry had been making firearms in New Jersey for a long time, with the reborn company starting its production in Brooklyn in the mid-1990s. But along with the Bayonne factory, there was another plant in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. Henry opened that facility in 2014, building their steel-framed centerfire rifles there. Corporate headquarters are also in Rice Lake, and in 2021, Henry opened a plant in Ladysmith, Wisconsin as well, to build more rifles. They’ve added another factory in Ladysmith since.
Now, they are shutting down their New Jersey production and will make all their firearms in Wisconsin.
In a statement on Henry’s website, Anthony Imperato, the company’s founder and CEO, said the move will let them be more efficient.
“We are putting all of our eggs in one basket, the Wisconsin basket, because it makes us more efficient, more productive, and allows for more collaboration amongst our design and engineering teams, all while sustaining and enhancing Henry’s solid reputation for quality,” read his statement. “With about 400,000 square feet of cutting-edge manufacturing operations in four facilities within minutes of each other, Henry Repeating Arms is well positioned for its next chapter.”
Henry has been on a tear in the past couple of years, introducing a new mag-fed lever-action, new revolvers, the semi-auto Homesteader PCC and other firearms. With more firearms in the lineup comes more demand to produce them, and their Wisconsin expansion should provide guns to meet that demand.
