mauser9 wrote:Read on another forum that Remington is currently having big financial problems. Info came from news article in N.Y. Times from May 5th or 6th. Article mentions the acquisition of Marlin as a questionable move. Hate to hear of this bad news as we already lost the plants of Winchester and Marlin years back. Guess Winchesters being made by FN, Miroku, and others who have bought rights to the name. With Colt hanging by a thread it would be awful to lose Americas oldest gun maker and a favorite of mine and millions of others. Has anyone heard of any news pertaining to the financial problems recently?
Maybe Freedom Group will buy out Colt! Colts already so screwed up that no body will know the difference. At least Remington has tried to show some innovation, they have pretty much all been disasters but that's all on Management. The main reason for shoddy products, bad QC and miserable CS is bad management, which always leads to employees that just don't care anymore, a by-product of Freedom Group leadership. Colt on the other hand has produced no innovative products in the last 40 to 50 years! They killed off all the revolvers, moved the SAA to the Custom Shop, where they are hugely expensive and now they have lost the M-4 contract to FN Herstal. They have never paid much attention to the buying public and what it might be interested in. No striker fired guns, no new revolvers, no polymer semi-autos, just "good ol' 1911s. I really don't believe they even have any "designers on staff, so they circle the drain.
Well that's about enough of this rant. Two formerly great firearm manufacturers that couldn't find their ass with either hand! Too Bad!!!