Gentlemen
This is why nobody is picking up Winchester, take it for what its worth.
The building is 140 years old or there about, it is in dire need of repair, and being that old it falls under guidelines by both federal and state regulations of how the repair has to be done, its a historical building so it has to stay 90% in the original condition.
Next the equipment is very old and very worn out, not that it cant be rebuilt, but the equipment will still be old and rebuilt, and slow.
The last thing is the clean up of the building and the surrounding area, after 140 years of building firearms and firearms being built before the EPA came along the place is a mess, cutting oil has soaked the floor so badly that its a real mess, in the area where the firearms where blued its a nightmare, again the floor is a real mess and there is talk of ground water contamination, the city is trying hard to get someone to pick it up so they will be stuck with the clean up or if nobody pickes it up the EPA will come in and clean everything up and the city gets stuck with the bill, have you all forgot what happened when the EPA came in and shut down the Redfield scope mamufacturing company a few years ago,its all a shame that it happened and i would really like to see Winchester back in buisness again especially if they would make them like they did pre 64, but i guess im only dreaming.
