Help Hoplite Industries Move To The USA
Want to put money into a business that is intent on moving to a better future, so to speak? Hoplite Industries, currently based in New Zealand, wants to talk with you—they’re looking to move their operations to the United States.
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Who’s Hoplite Industries?
Hoplite Industries currently manufactures the DNV-9 night vision equipment (monocular, binocular and panoramic configurations all viewable here). They also make accessories, including a helmet cover, that allow shooters to use their gear more easily. Hoplite Industries also manufactures a low-light drone camera, which is increasingly the sort of gear that militaries are relying on, as we see in the conflict in Ukraine.
Why are they moving?
With its New Zealand roots, Hoplite Industries is one of those many firearms/defense sector manufacturers that’s based in a former British colony, and is finding the political climate is pushing them out (see also: the entire Canadian firearms industry, which is falling to pieces unless a business is lucky enough to have government contracts). The people running Hoplite Industries appear to see the writing on the wall, and recently posted this to Twitter/X:
Our goal is to move our entire operation and manufacturing to the United States as soon as possible.New Zealand is in a rapid decline, and our laws are in the way of launching several products.Moving Stateside is a pretty big undertaking, and one we unfortunately can not do along for some time..Are there any Angel Investors out there that want to assist in making this happen?
Check out the tweet and its replies here, including some more details from Hoplite, who say:
We could start on the low end with just a small final assembly and warehousing facility outsourcing most of the machine work, or go all the way up to complete in house manufacturing.The total costs could be anywhere from $200k, to $500k
This might be a good option for an investor, or it might not be. I won’t give you investing advice.
But I will say that it’s interesting to see firearms manufacturing moving to the U.S. from overseas, somewhat opposite to the general trend of factories being moved to developing countries. The U.S. is still buying firearms and accessories, and that could prove to be an economically strong point in the years to come, no matter what the gun banners would have you believe.
Photos: Hoplite Industries