Quote Originally Posted by Martinjmpr View Post
Are they planning to buy up Ruger too? Isn't Ruger a privately held company?

If the US gun industry is in trouble it's because there's no more "panic buying" of guns and there is such a glut of guns on the market that there's no reason to buy new. Plus as others have pointed out, Remington's been in trouble for a long time.

Didn't Winchester go out of business a few years ago? And Colt, didn't they stop selling to the public and only sell to government contractors?

How many companies are making AR lowers? How many companies are making AR parts? The number is probably in the hundreds, if not in the thousands.

My point being that just because some of these old dinosaurs die off it doesn't seem like there is a shortage of firearms for sale. Yes, it's sad when a company with a heritage like Remington's shuts its doors (as it was with Winchester.) But life goes on and even an organization as big as Cerberus Capital couldn't choke off the supply of firearms in the US if they wanted to.
It's more than that.
Here's an example of the many places that it's going with. Combined with places like FB that actively search and delete forums where firearm items, not guns but parts, are traded.
https://www.ar-15.co/threads/167098-...business-check


What they cannot get through the federal legislature they do slowly in towns, states, business transactions etc. Sure some companies fail, however (IMO) there's bigger things at play on the anti-gun side.