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What's Next for Winchester

The guns that won the West have died in the East-at least for now. At press time, Belgium-based Herstal Group planned to close the US Repeating Arms Co. (USRAC) factory in New Haven, Connecticut. Herstal owns USRAC, Browning and Belgium's Fabrique Nationale (FN). The company operates firearms manufacturing plants in the US, Belgium and Portugal and contracts with Miroku, in Japan, for much of its sporting-gun production. The Connecticut closure would leave all of the plant's 187 employees jobless.

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