I'm guessing nobody bothered to read the article.
I was just in Rainier last week and they're still there, still in business, still taking orders (including NFA shit). They ain't going anywhere. We got a lot of firearms businesses up here and if anything, most have been expanding.
It says they're opening another storefront and distribution warehouse, not moving the headquarters or closing the WA location.
When you're looking for a distribution warehouse, you want it closer to the center of the US and/or Memphis (UPS and Fedex hub). It's expensive to ship anything from WA to anywhere farther than the midwest, think about it, we're up in the goddamn corner. Shit going to FL costs more than double than say, Utah. What would you do if you were expanding your business?
We recently got saddled with some bullshit laws thanks to that motherfucker Bloomberg coming out here and buying an election, but it's all bullshit aimed at making it more difficult.