No buyer for makers of John Wayne rifle

Despite a two-month search for a buyer to take over the historic US Winchester rifle factory, the plant will close at the end of the month, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano said tonight.

City and union leaders scrambled to find a buyer in January after the Herstal Group, a Belgian manufacturer, said it would close the US Repeating Arms plant, the Connecticut assembly line that produced the “The Gun that Won the West".