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Marlin Firearms Co., a 140-year-old company which made a gun that was a favorite of Annie Oakley, is closing its Connecticut plan, a move that will cost Connecticut manufacturing jobs.

According to the AP, workers at the plant in North Haven say they’ve been told all 265 employees will lose their jobs.

Jessica Kallam, a spokeswoman with Madison, N.C.’s Remington Arms Co. Inc., which owns Marlin, said the Connecticut plant will close by June 2011 and employees would be offered severance and help finding jobs. She said Marlin is relocating its manufacturing operations to an undetermined site.

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Apria Healthcare, a company that distributes diabetic and respiratory supplies to patients in Connecticut and across the nation, has said that it will lay off 15 workers by the end of April, thereby eliminating several healthcare jobs in CT.

The reason is unclear, according to HartfordBusiness.com.

The announcement comes at a time when Connecticut jobs are on the decline.

Apria employs more than 11,000 people in 504 branch offices in the United States. It serves more than 1 million patients a year, the Web site says. The Blackstone Group, a big New York-based private equity investment firm, bought Apria in 2008.

According to Tampa Bay Online.com, the company has been “restructuring its operations and outsourcing some work overseas.”

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According to Charles Zien, the president of United Tool and Die in West Hartford, thousands of manufacturing jobs in Connecticut are at risk if the Pentagon considers outsourcing Boeing to French manufacturer Airbus.

In a blog on the Hartford Courant.com, Zien states, Connecticut’s defense industry might not be the jobs engine it once was, but Pratt & Whitney, Electric Boat and Sikorsky and hundreds of smaller suppliers remain a critical part of our economic mix.

In fact, Zien says, our continued reliance on the defense industry demands that we keep an eye on the Pentagon’s procurement decisions and how they affect our state. Case in point: the controversial competition between America’s Boeing Corp. and Europe’s Airbus to build a new airborne refueling tanker for the Air Force.

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