Barrett Breaks Ground On New Facility

New jobs and ultimately new guns are on the way to the Murfreesboro region in Tennessee, as Barrett Firearms has now broken ground on a major expansion project, with plans to add 250,000 square feet of manufacturing and office space when it’s over.

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Growing with demand

The Barrett expansion was announced last winter, when NIOA Group (Barrett’s owner) said the new factory was going to be their primary firearms manufacturing facility for the global market, as well as containing research and development facilities. It would also house the Australian-owned company’s US head offices.

Barrett plans to invest $76.4 million and create 183 new jobs through the project. The estimated 250,000-square-foot Barrett Manufacturing & Technology Campus will serve as the company’s primary global firearms manufacturing site and will offer employees a cutting-edge campus environment, housing state-of-the-art manufacturing, a corporate office and other major operations. Additionally, the NIOA Group, Barrett’s Australian-owned parent company, intends to locate its U.S. headquarters at the facility upon completion.

It’s part of a widespread move by the firearms industry to invest in the southeastern U.S., as other regions of the country make it difficult to do business there due to regulations and general anti-gun sentiments. In Barrett’s case, they are actually staying close to their roots; they’ve started digging into the dirt in Rutherford County, at a location close to where Barrett originally started their operations and ran for 40 years.

Barrett expects the construction to be done in 2027.