It's still early in the planning stages but a manufacture is looking to build a new facility next to The Heritage Guild in Easton PA. I don't think it's going to make a huge dent in supply levels but every little bit helps.

 

Two businessmen are asking Williams Township officials to adjust zoning laws to allow for a plant that makes ammunition.

 

Jim Calderio and Tal Najjar want to turn a nearly 5,000-square-foot warehouse on Hilton Street into a business that would make handgun ammunition. The facility would be at the site of The Heritage Guild shooting range.

 

The men pitched the plan to open Accu-Maxx Ammunition to address a ammunition shortage on Wednesday night.

 

Officials voted 2-1 to pass the rezoning request to township and Lehigh Valley planners. Supervisors George Washburn and Sally Hixon were receptive to the idea, but Supervisor Vince Foglia dissented over safety concerns.

 

Foglia feared that people -- including those "who want to build pipe bombs" -- may break into the facility. The township doesn't have a full-time police department to patrol in case a situation like that occurred, he said. The township relies on State Police at Belfast, which is about 30 minutes from the township, he said.

 

Washburn said the facility would create jobs and they "might as well build it here."

 

"I'm fairly comfortable that it will be safe," he said.

 

The township's planning commission would get to review the proposal, and "our planners beat everything to death, which is good," he said.

 

Hixon said she'd prefer granting a variance for Accu-Maxx because "if we pass a zoning amendment it opens it up to the entire zoning district."

 

Every property owner within 200 feet of the proposed plant would be notified by mail before it goes to the zoning board if it were changed to a special exception, said township zoning officer Richard Adams.

We need more businessmen across the country to start fighting zoning boards and opening ammo manufacturing facilities!

 

 

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"Foglia feared that people -- including those "who want to build pipe bombs" -- may break into the facility."

 

Where do you start with that level of stupid???

"Foglia feared that people -- including those "who want to build pipe bombs" -- may break into the facility."

 

Where do you start with that level of stupid???

Easy- you start with laws that outlaw matches!

um break into the facility to steal stuff to make pipe bombs?

 

meanwhile there's like 4 fireworks places with a hell of a lot of explosives right around the corner....

"Foglia feared that people -- including those "who want to build pipe bombs" -- may break into the facility."

 

Where do you start with that level of stupid???

 

Hey now, it could pose a danger to all the customers at the GUN STORE next door...

No! They were going to turn that into full auto/non-noob range bay!

Thats unreal that someone makes a comment like that. Thats the guy with too many "what-if's"