Question: The Bushmaster M17S was manufactured by a company based in what state?
Context: Corder Drum Company was a percussion instrument manufacturing company based in Huntsville, Alabama.  The company was created in 1979 by Jim Corder, following his purchase of the dies, moulds and tooling apparatus of the Fibes Drum Company from its then-owner, the C.F. Martin Organization.  Corder Drum manufactured a line of wood shell drums using Fibes-designed lugs, strainers and hoops until 1990, when Corder sold his company to Sammy Darwin, a radio programmer who renamed the operation Darwin Drums.  Four years later, Darwin sold the company to Tommy Robertson, who brought back the Fibes Drum Company name for the product line. Adafruit Industries is an open-source hardware company based in New York City.  It was founded by Limor Fried in 2005, in her Massachusetts Institute of Technology dorm room.  The company designs and manufactures a number of electronics products, sells a wide variety of electronics components, tools, and accessories via its online storefront, and produces a number of learning resources, including written tutorials, introductory videos for beginners, and the longest running live video electronics show on the internet.  All Adafruit products are manufactured in their 40000 sqfoot factory in SoHo, Manhattan.  In 2013, the company took in US$22 million in revenue, and had shipped over a million products in 480,000 orders, and in January 2016, the company accepted its one millionth order. Simplicity Manufacturing Company is an American company based in Port Washington, Wisconsin that builds lawn and garden equipment under various brands.  The company was founded by William J. Niederkorn in 1922, and started building walk-behind two-wheeled tractors in 1939.  Between 1941 and 1945, due to World War II, Simplicity Manufacturing temporarily halted production of lawn and garden products, and manufactured electric fence controllers and external surface grinders to satisfy the War Production Board.  Simplicity built is first riding tractor in 1957 which was the model Wonderboy.  Allis-Chalmers purchased the company in 1965, and Simplicity's management bought it back in 1983.  Simplicity Manufacturing celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1997 with a special 75th anniversary tractor model.  The tractor featured a special blue paint scheme with chrome Harley-Davidson lights and muffler. The Louden Machinery Company was an American engineering, manufacturing and design company based in Fairfield, Iowa.  Founded by William Louden, the company in its early years manufactured and sold the patented hay carrier that he invented in 1867.  The company later expanded into a wide variety of farm equipment and, in 1906, began an Architecture Department that reportedly designed more than 25,000 barns from 1906 to 1939.  During World War I, Louden's monorail equipment carrier began to be applied to industrial and military applications.  By the 1920s, much of the company's revenues were derived from industrial applications of its monorail equipment carriers. Bushmaster Firearms International, LLC, based in Madison, North Carolina, United States, is a manufacturer and distributor of firearms.  The company's product line revolves around semi-automatic pistol and rifle variants of the M4 / AR-15 design. The Bushmaster M17S is a semi-automatic bullpup rifle that was manufactured by Bushmaster Firearms International from 1992 until 2005. Raufoss Ammunisjonsfabrikker was a Norwegian company based at Raufoss, established in 1896 as "Rødfoss Patronfabrik".  Initially the company manufactured ammunition, and later also other products, such as aluminium parts to the automotive industry.  Until 1948 the company was a subordinate to the Norwegian Ministry of Defence.  In the 1990s the automobile division was split off as "Raufoss Automotive" and eventually taken over by Norsk Hydro.  The ammunition division was merged with the Swedish company Celsius and the Finnish company Patria, forming the new company Nammo. Powertrain Ltd was a British company based in Birmingham which made some cars, manufactured and marketed car engines and transmissions.  The company was owned by MG Rover Group and Phoenix Venture Holdings.  It was based in the South Works at Rover's Longbridge plant.  The companies main products were the K-Series four-cylinder and six-cylinder Engines and the L-Series four-cylinder diesel engine.  The company mainly produced engines for MG Rover between 2000 and 2005 but also supplied Ford Land Rover with the L-Series and K-Series engines for the Land Rover Freelander which was developed by Rover Group in the 1990s during the ownership by BMW and British Aerospace.  As well as Land Rover, K-Series engines were also supplied to many small mass production car companies like MG Rover such as FSO and SAPIA. HelioVolt Corporation was a privately held U.S. solar energy company based in Austin, Texas, that suspended operations in 2014.  The company manufactured photovoltaic (PV) solar modules using a thin film semiconductor process based on copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) to produce CIGS solar cells. HelioVolt manufactured these thin film modules for commercial rooftop, utility-scale ground mount, residential, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and custom installations.  The company raised over $230 million in investment, including over $80 million by SK Group. TECO Energy Inc. is an energy-related holding company based in Tampa, Florida, providing electricity to the greater Tampa area and central Florida, and natural gas throughout the state of Florida through its subsidiaries Tampa Electric Company and Peoples Gas Company respectively.  Another subsidiary, TECO Services, Inc., provides IT, HR, legal, facilities, and other common services to Tampa Electric, Peoples Gas, and former TECO subsidiary New Mexico Gas Company.  On September 4, 2015, Emera, a utility holding company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, announced the pending acquisition of TECO Energy.  That purchase closed on July 1, 2016, and TECO Energy, Inc. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Emera, Inc.
Answer: North Carolina