I'm glad to see that S&W was wise enough to get away from "THAT STATE."
But pistola manufacturing remains. Maybe that will be gone soon, transferred to the new place when ready.
That new facility in Tenn looks like it has a high capacity manufacturing floor behind the office buildings.
Massachusetts still has: G.E., Raytheon, M.I.T., Mass General Hospital, Kraft, Gillette, Analogue Devices, Harvard University, Bose, Dan-Farber Cancer Institute, Liberty Mutual, Thermo-Fisher Scientific, The Children's Hospital, Dunkin Brands, Biogen, etc ...
S&W is small potatoes, but I am sure out in Springfield it's a big deal. S.W. Mass is more like NY or Connecticut than the Boston area.
A whole different culture than the city.
I had lived in northern Mass for a couple decades then "got out" when I got married in 1990. Since I still worked in Mass and commuted across state lines, I still had to pay tax there! - Ken