was selected to participate in an unprecedented effort to establish and operate five government-owned munitions plants that were nicknamed GO-CO (Government Owned, Company Operated). Concurrently, the Remington ammunition plant in Bridgeport was asked to make the same transition, from making sporting cartridges and shotshells to producing military ammunition. However, the story actually began two years earlier in Ilion when Remington started to convert from production of commercial firearms for the sporting trade to production of military rifles. The company responded dramatically with both rifles and ammunition, eventually increasing its workforce twenty-fold, and ultimately producing materiel with an aggregate value of over $1 billion. In 1941, when the United States needed firearms for its own troops, it called upon Remington.
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