Quote Originally Posted by Powderfinger View Post
The current owners of Webley would have to buy new machinery, rent or buy a unit to house it in and (most difficult of all) find staff to build these rifles. The staff who used to build them were long gone.
Making guns in Britain not an insurmountable problem: Air Arms, BSA and Daystate manufacture in Britain. Westley Richards have an engineering business in a modern annex to their venerable main building.
But after a factory has been shut down and the staff gone, it must be hellishly expensive to start again. And the contracts signed with the Turkish manufacturers might have precluded "onshoring".
Webley was not in a Victorian building but on a relatively modern trading estate before closure.
It's a shame they couldn't go in with Air Arms, AA could then reproduce the Longbow with glided internals, AA would then have their break barrel that everyone wants