SPRINGFIELD — New England-born Smith & Wesson will maintain 1,000 employees at its sprawling factory on Roosevelt Avenue even after opening and staffing up its new headquarters and plant in ...

Rifles are stacked before packaging at the Smith and Wesson factory in Springfield on Oct. 14, 2015. (Keith Bedford/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) While Smith & Wesson’s statement indicates ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 25.-The firm of Smith & Wesson, makers of revolvers, closed its factory this evening for an indefinite period. This step is taken presumably on account of labor troubles ...

A historic player piano factory dating back to the vaudeville era is on the market in Deep River, after an extended stint as a Smith & Wesson factory producing synthetic components for firearms.

Many years ago, I was honored to be a guest at the Smith & Wesson factory in Springfield, Mass. To say that I was struck emotionally would be a big understatement. I began collecting and shooting ...

Smith & Wesson reported its sales doubled in its last ... The top ammunition makers are Vista Outdoor, which acquired an ammo factory from Remington after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ...

The Houlton factory runs a truck to Springfield loaded with gun and handcuff parts three times a week. It's an eight-hour drive one way. Parent company Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (NASDAQ ...

In 1905, the model room at Smith & Wesson’s plant in Springfield, Mass., was astir with activity. The firm had enjoyed 50 years of progress in gunmaking and was determined to go forth in the new ...

One of the firearms owned by the gunman who attacked a Colorado movie theater in 2012 was made by Smith & Wesson. And in February, a fired employee returned to a suburban Chicago factory with a ...

He often passed the Smith & Wesson factory and its flashing marquee touting the company’s deep ties to the city, “Since 1852.” Nyasia Jordan, 18, knew it only as the place where her mom used ...