Departmentof Economic and CommunityDevelopment Commissioner Ron Angelo said the 100 jobs count toward the job requirements under the First Five program.
"The lack of any state marketing to try to reinforce the positive attributes of the state created a condition, " said Kip Bergstrom, deputy director of the state's Departmentof Economic and CommunityDevelopment.
The offer, capping six months of negotiations between the Departmentof Economic and CommunityDevelopment and Freedom Group, was dropped after private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management announced it would sell Freedom Group, manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15.